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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

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