From owner-freebsd-java Thu Mar 28 16:49:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (wsip68-15-8-100.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.8.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8407C37B405 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:49:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16qkaJ-0000QZ-00; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:49:39 -0800 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:49:39 -0800 To: Anthony Green Cc: Brian Behlendorf , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [press@apache.org: PRESS RELEASE: ASF Reaches Agreement with Sun to Allow Open Source Java Implementations] Message-ID: <20020329004939.GA1639@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <20020328002610.GA2023@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20020327221634.M1335-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> <20020328064218.GA2973@gnuppy.monkey.org> <1017330145.2206.84.camel@dhcppc2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1017330145.2206.84.camel@dhcppc2> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Bill Huey 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 On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:42:22AM -0800, Anthony Green wrote: > The performance of the resulting binaries is good. It's competitive > with state-of-the-art JIT systems. Meaning... sometimes faster, > sometimes slower. When it's faster, it can be much faster. For > instance, certain crypto operations used in SSL can run 10x faster than > state-of-the-art commercial JITs. What about garbage collection speed for short lived objects ? That's critical for folks doing a lot of String manipulation and dealing with the GUI framework generating EventObject-s every where. > And, finally, we get some relief on memory usage as well because we > build _shared_ libraries out of the enormous java core libraries as > opposed to each process JITting it's own copy of the code. Is it JNI compatible BTW ? Have folks talked about compiling the class libraries from Sun so that they're useable with gjc ? bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message