From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 23:56:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3FA937B401 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D9743F93 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:56:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com) Received: from pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com ([81.98.110.96]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20030413065606.SBQ11246.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com>; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:56:06 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Antony T Curtis To: Greg Lewis , Tom Samplonius Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:56:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <20030412230741.A22845@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <20030412230741.A22845@misty.eyesbeyond.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200304130756.05444.antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com> cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Other architectures? X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 06:56:09 -0000 -----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 fo= r > > 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= =2E > > There is ia64 code in the 1.4.1 SCSL release and Sun have had a linux-i= a64 > 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=20 on Alpha - including details as to the optimizations they performed to ge= t=20 good runtime performance. I remember reading it and thinking that the Compaq engineers were practic= ally=20 documenting how the JIT and JVM was written. - --=20 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=3D =3Dqvpn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----