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Date:      Tue, 03 Nov 1998 13:14:09 -0800
From:      Steve Byrne <sbb@freegate.com>
To:        malte.lance@gmx.net, nate@mt.sri.com
Cc:        gatto@widesoft.com.br, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: JIT on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19981103131409.00a2e2f0@mailhost.hq.freegate.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811031409.PAA04907@neuron.webmore.prv>
References:  <199810302023.NAA24574@mt.sri.com>

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At 03:09 PM 11/3/98 +0100, Malte Lance wrote:
>On 30 Oct, Nate Williams wrote:
>>> Does anyone know where I can find a JIT for JDK1.1.6 (or tell me there
>>> isn't one yet...)?
>> 
>> There isn't one for unix.
>
>c't 21, 12.10. - 25.10.98, p. 63 (bottom right):
>"JIT-Sources available
> MetroWerks has published the source-code of their
> CodeWarrior Just in Time Compiler (JIT) for Linux/PowerPC
> (http://www.metrowerks.com/). The license-conditions are
> nearly the same as the SUN JDK license-conditions and
> make the explicit statement that a porting to other platforms
> like Linux/Intel is allowed. The developergroup Blackdown
> (http://www.blackdown.org), which made the JDK-Linux-port,
> will work on the porting."

I can assure you that neither of these are hoaxes.  The
guys working on the PPC version of JDK for Linux have had
some connections with MetroWerks in the past that bore
this particular fruit.  As for the other, well, I've
already written about that one.

Steve



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