From owner-freebsd-java Tue Mar 23 13:57:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED5A1549C; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:56:34 -0800 (PST) (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 OAA07963; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:56:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA15937; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:56:14 -0700 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:56:14 -0700 Message-Id: <199903232156.OAA15937@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brian Adkins Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990323154644.0153a1f0@mailbox.iwaynet.net> References: <4.1.19990323151435.0153a550@mailbox.iwaynet.net> <199903231936.NAA10667@free.pcs> <4.2.0.32.19990323125147.00a86a80@localhost> <199903232038.NAA15495@mt.sri.com> <4.1.19990323154644.0153a1f0@mailbox.iwaynet.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> I would personally like to get to the point where folks who want Java and a > >> free OS go to FreeBSD *first*. > > > >While I think this is a laudable goal, the lack of a solid JIT means > >that FreeBSD will lack behind the other OS's (notably the M$ version) in > >performance. > > So what do we have to do to get a solid JIT? Is it a matter of developer > time, or are there other issues involved? Mostly resources, which involve more than time, but involve expertise. Similar to the thread running in -hackers, you need someone with time, expertise, and desire to work on the problem. Unfortunately, I have very little of all of them. :) > If we could compete with > Microsoft's and Sun's Java performance/reliability, I would probably become > the #1 FreeBSD evangelist in a short time :) I mean, I love it as it is, > but if it had a Java as least as good as Windows NT, I'd be ecstatic! So would I. :) :) > >> Other commercial OS companies are seriously > >> lacking here, I think SCO only has a 1.1.3 JDK, whereas, FreeBSD already > >> has a 1.1.7. > > > >And soon to have an ELF version. I've spent the last few days working > >on it, and I hope to have the ELF version of JDK1 out by next week > >sometime. > > > >Then, it's onto JDK2. :) > > Doesn't the Java 2 platform include Symantec's JIT? Will we get that with > the port? The Linux folks have someone been able to integrate it, but I don't know how. Hopefully their patches will shed some light into that, but the JIT apparently only works with green threads and not native threads. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message