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From: Joe Shevland <J_Shevland@TurnAround.com.au>
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To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Kaffe release coming soon
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Archie Cobbs wrote:
> 
> Nate Williams writes:
> > > TONS of stuff has been fixed since 1.0b3. It's much closer to
> > > reasonable usable at this point.. though still not perfect,
> > > especially with complex AWT apps.
> >
> > How does the JIT do with AWT stuff?
> 
> I don't know much at all about AWT stuff, but I think pretty good,
> as the way AWT is implemented in kaffe is "lightweight" (whatever
> that means in the context of AWT).

I would assume that means the components used by kaffe to render
on-screen widgets are built from the ground up from graphics primitives
instead of using the native platform's windowing components. Swing/JFC
is considered lightweight as it builds all GUI components from scratch;
AWT is not lightweight as it relies on building a layer on top of the
native widgets.

At least that's my understanding.

Regards,
Joe.
 
> The JIT engine for kaffe is pretty naive. It could definitely
> benefit from a more intelligent algorithm, eg, that did some
> simple peephole optimizations. In any case it's still a heck
> of a lot faster than interpreting.
> 
> -Archie
> 
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