From owner-freebsd-java Tue Mar 23 12:38:57 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 9C98314BEE; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:38:48 -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 NAA07317; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:38:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA15495; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:38:09 -0700 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:38:09 -0700 Message-Id: <199903232038.NAA15495@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brian Adkins Cc: Brett Glass , Jonathan Lemon , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990323151435.0153a550@mailbox.iwaynet.net> References: <199903231936.NAA10667@free.pcs> <4.2.0.32.19990323125147.00a86a80@localhost> <4.1.19990323151435.0153a550@mailbox.iwaynet.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I would personally like to get to the point where folks who want Java and a > free OS go to FreeBSD *first*. While I think this is a laudable goal, the lack of a solid JIT means that FreeBSD will lack behind the other OS's (notably the M$ version) in performance. > Other commercial OS companies are seriously > lacking here, I think SCO only has a 1.1.3 JDK, whereas, FreeBSD already > has a 1.1.7. And soon to have an ELF version. I've spent the last few days working on it, and I hope to have the ELF version of JDK1 out by next week sometime. Then, it's onto JDK2. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message