native vs byte code

[emm raha]

Does anyone know of any published/unofficial comparisons between native and bytecode performance? I just found GCJ (http://gcc.gnu.org/java) and am interested in whether it improves performance. The only interesting snippet I have found so far is 5 years old. Need to crunch these numbers some more to see if the diferences are significant (statistically):
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q3/msg00337.html
Just curious about results, not looking to persuade anyone one way or another...
[ May 07, 2004: Message edited by: emm raha ]

[Stefan Wagner]

The performance of the sun-machine made big steps in the last years.
So I would try to ask the autor for the testcode, or for actual benchmarks.

[emm raha]

Interesting article. For some reason IBM JRE comes out a winner
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-native.html?loc=j