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To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux
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From: SHUDO Kazuyuki <shudoh@muraoka.info.waseda.ac.jp>
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Steve Price wrote:

> # Doesn't the Java 2 platform include Symantec's JIT?  Will we get that with
> # the port?
>
> Yes the Sun implementation has it (and Blackdown's too I think)
> but the source is not publically available, so our port won't
> come with it. :(

Java 2 SDK (JDK 1.2) for Linux and for Solaris have Sun
JIT. Only one for Win32 has Symantec JIT.

Porting Symantec JIT to other OSes on x86 may be not too
difficult. But, Symantec has not released their JIT for
other platforms than Win32.

Kazuyuki SHUDO				Happy Hacking!
  Muraoka Lab., School of Sci. & Eng., Waseda Univ.


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