From owner-freebsd-java Mon Mar 1 9:35:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from netrinsics.com (unknown [210.74.179.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B978F1546A for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:35:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robinson@netrinsics.com) Received: (from robinson@localhost) by netrinsics.com (8.9.2/8.8.7) id AAA11448; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 00:28:04 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from robinson) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 00:28:04 +0800 (CST) From: Michael Robinson Message-Id: <199903011628.AAA11448@netrinsics.com> To: pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za, shudoh@muraoka.info.waseda.ac.jp Subject: Re: JITs for FreeBSD (was Re: somewhat new to java questions) Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter van Heusden writes: >Might do, but as far as I know, some of the HotSpot techniques are merely >extensions of what was already done in the Self programming environment >(http://self.smli.com, as I recall). Papers on Self, and the Self source >code, are freely available. Yes, but considering that the original Self team has been working on Hotspot for over two years, and it's still vaporware despite Sun's very prominent hype of it, I'd conclude that porting the Self technology to Java is not a project to be undertaken lightly by amateurs. -Michael Robinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message