[Biojava-l] Compiling with Jikes

[Thomas Down]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:58:50AM -0800, Bradley A. Smith wrote:
> > Incidentally, you might like to look at the javac in jdk1.3 --
> > it's a complete rewrite of the old one, and is significantly
> > faster (and fixes a fair number of bugs).
> 
> Granted jdk 1.3 is better than jdk 1.2; however, I still find that jikes is
> about 1.5 times faster than jdk 1.3. In addition, the bytecode produced by
> jikes runs faster.

That's interesting.  Do you have any numbers for this?  And does
it just apply to interpreters and naive JITs, or does it scale
to things like Hotspot/ibmjit/Compaq Fast VM?

> > The obvious solution is simply to move EmptyAlphabet into
> > it's own source file (there's no reason why it /needs/ to be
> > a nested class, other than general coding style).  It can
> > then be a normal package-private class of bio.symbol.
> >
> > Does this help?
> 
> Yes, thanks.

Okay, I'll make sure we do things that way in future
releases.  Thanks for helping to sort this out.

   Thomas.