From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 16 8:59:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83DBE37BC95 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:59:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 149972DC09; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:04:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 38C147811; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:58:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0543110E16; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:58:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:58:47 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Nate Williams Cc: Craig Shaver , FreeBSD ISP List Subject: Re: Java and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200003161604.JAA14236@nomad.yogotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Nate Williams wrote: > The reason for this is because the Blackdown team was given access to > the latest SUN JIT. It has very little to do with JDK1.2 and everything > to do with using a well designed JIT. > Again, this has little to do with it, and the biggest reason is because Really? I thought that native kernel threads would help for IO bound application.. > of the JIT. For a much better performing JDK 1.1.8, try using one of > the JIT's in the ports area, either TYA or ShuJIT. I've had good look > with the former... My point was that even with one of those JITs the performance is less than breathtaking. Don't take it personally, please - I know you spent tremendous efforts to make Java available on FreeBSD, and I admire you for that. But still, it's easy to make VolanoMark benchmark and see the results... Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message