Gcj could never equal the overall performance of Hotspot, probably mostly limited by the Boehm GC. Given the overhead and non-determinism of GC in general, ther

Gcj could never equal the overall performance of Hotspot, probably mostly limited by the Boehm GC. Given the overhead and non-determinism of GC in general, there is not a lot of impetus for realtime Java, which is probably the biggest incentive to avoid JITC overhead. If you want a modern, natively compiled, LLVM based language that avoids GC, I suggest you look into Swift. :-)