Performance
Java code compiled into machine code by GCJ should have faster start-up time than the equivalent bytecode launched in a JVM.
However, after start-up, Java code compiled by GCJ does not necessarily execute any faster than bytecode executed by a modern JIT-enabled JVM. This is true even when GCJ is invoked with advanced optimization options such as -fno-bounds-check -O3 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -ffast-math -march=native; in this case, the compiled program may or may not surpass JVM performance, depending on the operations performed by the code in question.
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