Apparently the "classic" compiler is not only deprecated in JDK 1.4, but it

also has a significant regression introduced in it.   The default compiler
not only works, but also is noticably faster.  Ant takes care of the
selection of the compiler automatically based on the JDK level, so the
following patch should make things better all around.

js/rhino/build.xml

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ Requires Ant version 1.2
     <property name="version" value="1_5R3pre"/>
     <property name="rhino.jar" value="js.jar"/>
   
-    <property name="build.compiler" value="classic"/>
     <property name="debug" value="off"/>
   
     <property name="src.dir" value="src"/>