Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:56:16 +0200 From: <k.j.koster@telecom.tno.nl> To: <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>, <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>, <tom@sdf.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Other architectures? Message-ID: <0DD8055E0FECF744B5FF8053F80C4A2D73787D@l07.oase.research.kpn.com>
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Dear All, > > > > I would imagine that alpha and ia64 are much harder, and perhaps > > > impossible, since Sun is not likely to be targetting=20 > > > these platforms. > > > Perhaps maybe ia64, if Solaris is ported to it sometime=20 > > > in the future. > > > > There is ia64 code in the 1.4.1 SCSL release and Sun have=20 > > had a linux-ia64 > > beta out for 1.4.1 for quite some time. Alpha is harder,=20 > > but certainly not impossible. > The limiting factor for Alpha is to find someone who can write the = native method invocations in Alpha assembler. This should be a day or = two work for someone who's proficient in Alpha assembler. I did some of = the groundwork (basic stuff) and wrote a little about it on my web site = (http://www.kjkoster.org/java/). > > Compaq used to have a quite good whitepaper about their=20 > implementation of Java=20 > on Alpha - including details as to the optimizations they=20 > performed to get good runtime performance. > It is possible to run Compaq's Java 2 implementation on FreeBSD/axp. If = you search the freebsd-alpha mailing list archives you will find crude = howto's. I'd be interested to read that article. Could you dig up an URL? Kees Jan =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D You can't have everything. Where would you put it? [Steven Wright]
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