From owner-freebsd-java Sat Mar 9 8:40:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mail.looneys.net (crufty.looneys.net [63.231.250.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4529937B41D for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 08:40:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (serpico.looneys.net [63.231.250.36]) by mail.looneys.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F53A226B0 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 10:40:47 -0600 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mcclain Looney Reply-To: mcclain@looneys.net To: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance of Java/FreeBSD Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 10:41:22 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020309171247.D26683-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> In-Reply-To: <20020309171247.D26683-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020309164047.3F53A226B0@mail.looneys.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org it's a fairly well established fact that java on freeBSD is sub-par, and has been since the beginning. http://www.volano.com/report/index.html for reasons that escape me, freebsd seems to be rather apathetic about the advancement of java on its platform, which is unfortunate. my theory is that java's closed nature isn't appealing to potential cleanroom vm developers. hopefully some day that will change, but as far as I can tell, there are no java champions high up the ladder of freebsd power (so to speak). please correct me if i'm wrong. speaking of which, can anyone speak to the current state of the sun licensing deal that was struck last year? I haven't heard anything about it after the initial hooplah. -mcclain On Saturday 09 March 2002 10:26 am, you wrote: > I have coded some simulator to study routing algorithms for my PhD thesis > and I have tried running my tests with jdk1.3.1/FreeBSD and > linux-jdk1.4.0/FreeBSD. It's damn slow... I mean far more than I expected. > I used to do tests under jdk1.2/hotspot-server/win32 and jdk1.3.1/win32 > and I thought freebsd was just a bit less performant. What a surprise. To > give an idea : I think win32 goes more than 5 times faster than bsd. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message