From owner-freebsd-java Sat Mar 9 13: 8:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from plato.webprogrammers.net (plato.webprogrammers.net [204.221.75.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E319837B41F for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 13:07:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by plato.webprogrammers.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g29L3N099436; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 15:03:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jstepka@webprogrammers.net) X-Authentication-Warning: plato.webprogrammers.net: nobody set sender to jstepka@webprogrammers.net using -f Received: from 24.240.42.215 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jstepka) by mail.webprogrammers.net with HTTP; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 15:03:23 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <1705.24.240.42.215.1015707803.squirrel@mail.webprogrammers.net> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 15:03:23 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Performance of Java/FreeBSD From: "Justen Stepka" To: In-Reply-To: <20020309164047.3F53A226B0@mail.looneys.net> References: <20020309164047.3F53A226B0@mail.looneys.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: Reply-To: jstepka@webprogrammers.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.4) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message