Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 23:09:39 -0500 (EST) From: "Alex.Boisvert" <boia01@gel.usherb.ca> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Java benchmarks on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971203230734.20918A-100000@zeus>
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Good news for Java programmers on FreeBSD. As I mentioned earlier today in this list, I have Sun's JDK 1.1.2 running on FreeBSD 2.2-stable. JavaWorld and Volano just published a series of benchmarks for Java virtual machines running on differents hardware/software platforms. See the article at: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1997/jw-12-volanomark.html) As stated in the article, no benchmarks were published for FreeBSD's current JDK 1.1 port (from Keith White) because it couldn't execute the benchmark program correctly. Well, I downloaded and ran the VolanoMark and the Client/Server benchmarks and to my suprise (!) they both worked! So here are the preliminary results on my home computer (Intel Pentium 133 MHz) along with the results on NT/Solaris/Linux with different JVMs running on an Pentium Pro 200 MHz... VolanoMark v1.0 Result ================================================================= Windows NT, Microsoft Java SDK v2.0 756 (includes JIT and native threads) Solaris, Sun's JDK 1.1.3 334 (includes JIT and native threads) Solaris, JavaSoft's JDK 1.1.4 240 (this is the reference release, no JIT) OS/2 Wrap, IBM's JDK 1.1.4 239 (include JIT and native threads) Red Hat Linux 4.2, JavaSoft JDK 1.1.3 223 (no JIT, green threads) Windows NT, JavaSoft's JDK 1.1.4 149 (this is the reference release, no JIT) FreeBSD 2.2-stable, JavaSoft JDK 1.1.2 145 (no JIT, green threads, and running on a P133 MHz, not a PPro 200 MHz) Client/Server benchmark Result =============================================================== Windows NT, Microsoft Java SDK v2.0 1070 (includes JIT and native threads) OS/2 Wrap, IBM's JDK 1.1.4 858 (include JIT and native threads) Solaris, Sun's JDK 1.1.3 695 (includes JIT and native threads) Red Hat Linux 4.2, JavaSoft JDK 1.1.3 521 (no JIT, green threads) FreeBSD 2.2-stable, JavaSoft JDK 1.1.2 331 (no JIT, green threads, and running on a P133 MHz, not a PPro 200 MHz) Although we can't compare (nor accurately scale) the results between my P133 and the PPro200 that was used for the actual tests, the good news are: 1) it works! and 2) the results on FreeBSD seem on-par with Linux (and maybe a bit better than Windows NT running JavaSoft's plain-vanilla JDK 1.1.4). Moral of the story: expect a release "real soon now". Alex.
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