Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:53:08 +0100 From: Jeff Dalton <jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: java status and Message-ID: <19952.200108141353@todday> In-Reply-To: Koster, K.J.'s message of Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:37:05 %2B0100
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Can someone explain why it's so hard to port new versions of JDK? K. J. Koster wrote: > The source code to the JDK is some 25 megs of a mix of C, shell scripts, > assembler and makefiles. You need all of this to work to get a JDK. I think > that's taxing enough for any OS without Sun specifying others as well. :-) Ok, but why haven't they done the "obvious" thing of having all the C and assembler down in the VM, with the rest in Java, and with new versions arranged so that you can, if you want, keep using the same VM and just put in the new Java code? -- Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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