From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 29 06:39:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA25692 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 06:39:03 -0700 Received: from nanolon.gun.de (nanolon.gun.de [192.109.159.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA25686 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 06:39:00 -0700 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by nanolon.gun.de (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) with UUCP id PAA07073 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 15:38:51 +0200 Received: (from andreas@localhost) by knobel.GUN.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA01769 for hackers@freebsd.org Sat, 29 Apr 1995 12:01:53 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm Message-Id: <199504291001.MAA01769@knobel.GUN.de> Subject: Re: Hot Java.. To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 12:01:53 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <27759.798714237@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 24, 95 02:03:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1282 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm looking over the sources here a little (I shouldn't, but I > couldn't help myself) and it looks like it's going to be a bit of a > bear. It uses threads pretty aggressively, manipulating thread stack > spaces and juggling their internal priorities in addition to all the > usual create/destroy/block thread ops. I haven't looked at pthreads > lately, but I'd say it'll have to be fairly capable to deal with the > demands made on it by Hot Java. I also don't know whether or not Java > assumes your libc to be thread safe, but I rather expect that it does. > > Anyone interested in forming a Java interest group to discuss the > porting of this to FreeBSD? I think it's going to be a post-2.1 > project, and something of a long one at that. It would make sense to > combine effort. What's so hot concerning java ? I'm running Netscape 1.1 for a while and I didn't find any interesting / superior stuff in it compared to Netscape. On thing was hot ... the size of the whole package ;-) -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - akl@wup.de - *** apsfilter - irgendwie clever *** ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/Linux/local/packs/APSfilter/aps-49...:-)