From owner-freebsd-java Fri Feb 19 21: 6:34 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 B1B7E116D5 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:05:21 -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 WAA17310; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:05:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA22643; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:05:15 -0700 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:05:15 -0700 Message-Id: <199902200505.WAA22643@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Jeays Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: somewhat new to java questions In-Reply-To: <36CE39E4.7221ED5F@statcan.ca> References: <36CDB479.65A0EFC6@chdev.com> <199902200138.SAA22208@mt.sri.com> <36CE170E.3F11D82D@statcan.ca> <199902200241.TAA22415@mt.sri.com> <36CE39E4.7221ED5F@statcan.ca> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Furthermore, the performance seems much worse, seen from > > > my perspective of FreeBSD, Java 1.1 and Swing compared with > > > TK/TCL 8.0. > > > > Of this there is little doubt. Java performs very poorly on FreeBSD due > > to the lack of JIT. Even though TCL is an interpreted language, the > > interpreter is much faster. > > Hopefully a JIT will appear soon. See the FreeBSD java WWW page for a couple of JITs. ShuJIT appears to work quite well. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message