From owner-freebsd-java Wed Sep 9 13:34:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14691 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:34:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hq.freegate.com (freegate.com [208.226.86.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA14684 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbb@freegate.com) Received: (qmail+freegate 13078 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 1998 20:34:37 -0000 Received: from ws18-n0.hq.freegate.com (HELO sbb) (208.226.86.146) by hq.freegate.com with SMTP; 9 Sep 1998 20:34:37 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980909134001.0099d100@mailhost.hq.freegate.com> X-Sender: sbb@mailhost.hq.freegate.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 13:40:01 -0700 To: alk@pobox.com From: Steve Byrne Subject: Re: Daemonising a Java Process: Possible? Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <13814.52020.566050.184787@compound.east> References: <13813.27934.606377.693358@compound.east> <199809082154.WAA00626@fdy2.demon.co.uk> <13814.46288.737653.240366@compound.east> <3.0.5.32.19980909105902.00979b70@mailhost.hq.freegate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:43 PM 9/9/98 -0500, Tony Kimball wrote: > >I think my point was not clear to you: gjc was not designed as jit, >i.e. as a component of a long-lived virtual machine. GC in the >generated code and GC in the compiler itself being entirely distinct >issues, and there being no requirement for the compiler not to leak >through successive invokations (since "power-cycle" garbage collection >is inherent in the invokation model), my supposition was that memory >management in the compiler itself will be one of the first-order tasks >required to use gjc as jit, on the assumption that the text/data/bss >are persistently linked into the jvm. Gotcha -- I wonder if performance will be adequate in a jit role, or if the pauses while the compiler operates will be too distracting. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message