From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 24 02:04:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA27772 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 02:04:04 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA27761 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 02:04:00 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Hot Java.. Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 02:03:57 -0700 Message-ID: <27759.798714237@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm looking over the sources here a little (I shouldn't, but I couldn't help myself) and it looks like it's going to be a bit of a bear. It uses threads pretty aggressively, manipulating thread stack spaces and juggling their internal priorities in addition to all the usual create/destroy/block thread ops. I haven't looked at pthreads lately, but I'd say it'll have to be fairly capable to deal with the demands made on it by Hot Java. I also don't know whether or not Java assumes your libc to be thread safe, but I rather expect that it does. Anyone interested in forming a Java interest group to discuss the porting of this to FreeBSD? I think it's going to be a post-2.1 project, and something of a long one at that. It would make sense to combine effort. Jordan