[Biojava-l] Compiling with Jikes

[Bradley A. Smith]

> 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.

> 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.

  Bradley