From owner-freebsd-java Sun Feb 21 22:55:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from picasso.wcape.school.za (picasso.wcape.school.za [196.21.102.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C16010EA4 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:55:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za) Received: from uucp by picasso.wcape.school.za with local-rmail (Exim 2.05 #1) id 10EpH3-0002wi-00 for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 08:55:25 +0200 Received: from localhost (pvh@localhost) by leftside.wcape.school.za (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id LAA01570 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:50:56 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:50:56 +0200 (SAST) From: Peter van Heusden To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: JITs for FreeBSD (was Re: somewhat new to java questions) In-Reply-To: <199902200505.WAA22643@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > See the FreeBSD java WWW page for a couple of JITs. ShuJIT appears to > work quite well. As does TYA, with the patch posted to this list. I've used TYA with a number of apps (Argo/UML and NetBeans, for example) with good results. So JITs don't seem to be a problem at the moment - its just a pity the Java 1.2 HotSpot compiler looks like it will remain proprietary. The concepts behind HotSpot seem very interesting. Peter -- Peter van Heusden | Its the 90's, and collective action is STILL cool! pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za | Get active in your union today! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message