From owner-freebsd-java Mon Jun 1 09:43:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09491 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 09:43:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09479 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 09:43:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA22627; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:43:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA09471; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:43:18 -0600 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:43:18 -0600 Message-Id: <199806011643.KAA09471@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jdk115 slow ? In-Reply-To: <199806011449.QAA03214@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199806011622.KAA09385@mt.sri.com> <199806011449.QAA03214@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ JDK 1.1.5 slower than the VM in netscape 3 ] > > Are you using netscape 4 or netscape 3? If netscape 3, then the > > netscape3 -- I hate it when the new version of a program is twice the > size of the previous one. When i have the need for the new features i > will consider paying the penalty. The difference in VM is the problem here. JDK1.0 is a lean and mean VM, and JDK1.1 is NOT. > > difference is probably one of JDK1.0 vs. JDK1.1. JDK1.0 is much > > smaller, and hence much faster. :( > > hmm... shouldn't the Java virtual machine be the same -- or possibly > faster ? No, it's bigger/buggier/more featureful, and although it has backwards compatability it's *huge* compared to JDK1.0. They call it progress, but as you point out above upgrading to a newer version must be justified. In short, it's not FreeBSD's problem. ;( Nate ps. If you want an old JDK1.0 version, Jeff Hsu's port should still be available for JDK1.0 somewhere. It's a pretty lean JDK. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message