From owner-freebsd-java Fri Mar 29 16:21:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (wsip68-15-8-100.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.8.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F36937B419 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:21:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16r6cR-0000Q7-00; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:21:19 -0800 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:21:19 -0800 To: Anthony Green Cc: Brian Behlendorf , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [press@apache.org: PRESS RELEASE: ASF Reaches Agreement with Sun to Allow Open Source Java Implementations] Message-ID: <20020330002119.GA1537@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <20020328002610.GA2023@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20020327221634.M1335-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> <20020328064218.GA2973@gnuppy.monkey.org> <1017330145.2206.84.camel@dhcppc2> <20020329004939.GA1639@gnuppy.monkey.org> <1017419202.5814.1933.camel@dhcppc2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1017419202.5814.1933.camel@dhcppc2> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Bill Huey 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 On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 09:59:10AM -0800, Anthony Green wrote: > I don't know off the top of my head. If you ask on java@gcc.gnu.org I'm > sure you'll get plenty of good answers. Last time I looked, I didn't think that the Boehm GC was terribly modern and support either generational or incremental collection.: > > Is it JNI compatible BTW ? > > Yes. We also have a unique, and much faster native code interface > called CNI if you can afford to lose portability. At what price ? The JNI layer is heavy weight for a reason. And that's to provide direct access directly invoke methods so that stuff like RMI, etc... can happen in terms of the JVM itself so that it's transparent to runtime typing system. What about class reflection ? bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message