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Date:      Sat, 9 Mar 2002 15:03:23 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Justen Stepka" <jstepka@webprogrammers.net>
To:        <mcclain@looneys.net>
Cc:        <java@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Performance of Java/FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <1705.24.240.42.215.1015707803.squirrel@mail.webprogrammers.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020309164047.3F53A226B0@mail.looneys.net>
References:  <20020309164047.3F53A226B0@mail.looneys.net>

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Could you post those results?

Justen Stepka

Mcclain Looney said:
>
> 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.
>
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