Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:56:03 +0100 From: Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>, Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Other architectures? Message-ID: <200304130756.05444.antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <20030412230741.A22845@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10304111331420.587-100000@misery.sdf.com> <20030412230741.A22845@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 April 2003 2:37 pm, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:32:29PM -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote: > > Would jdk14 build on architectures besides x86? I know Hotspot has a > > lot of machine specific code, but there should be code for sparc64 for > > sure. But does it build and run on FreeBSD/sparc64? > > It hasn't been tried on sparc64, although I'm tempted to do so sometime > fairly soon. > > > I would imagine that alpha and ia64 are much harder, and perhaps > > impossible, since Sun is not likely to be targetting these platforms. > > Perhaps maybe ia64, if Solaris is ported to it sometime in the future. > > There is ia64 code in the 1.4.1 SCSL release and Sun have had a linux-ia64 > beta out for 1.4.1 for quite some time. Alpha is harder, but certainly > not impossible. Compaq used to have a quite good whitepaper about their implementation of Java on Alpha - including details as to the optimizations they performed to get good runtime performance. I remember reading it and thinking that the Compaq engineers were practically documenting how the JIT and JVM was written. - -- Antony T Curtis BSc Unix Analyst Programmer http://homepage.ntlworld.com/antony.t.curtis/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+mQoFql7dp2cddmIRAm6bAJ9klP4fmKgn9ACYWSSoCCfnlgB5jACbBtNm TVvWTP7jPx1tWsfDplvtWRw= =qvpn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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