Native eclipse with gcj

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Tom,

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 00:59, Tom Tromey wrote:
> As I know you've heard, we've released a (mostly-)fully-compiled
> eclipse.  See:
> 
>     http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2003-08/msg00025.html
> 
> There are pointers there to all the sources.  The individual patches
> aren't all in the upstream cvs yet, but they're available in the
> SRPMs.
> 
> Our testing indicates that this eclipse starts up a bit faster than
> eclipse running under the IBM 1.3.1 JDK.  That must be a speed
> record...

Wow! You complete the install/startup/welcome/shutdown process under 10
seconds on my machine! And the whole things feels amazingly fast and
smooth. You clearly created a winner. Congratulations!

And you provide a way to compile the whole thing from source!

Truly amazing. Thanks so much!

Mark