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Date:      Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:13:46 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
Cc:        Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>, java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: java status and
Message-ID:  <15226.44490.773630.886484@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010816010848.A1124@elephant.netrinsics.com>
References:  <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9EB2@l04.research.kpn.com> <20010816012839.A95425@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20010816010848.A1124@elephant.netrinsics.com>

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> > > The FreeBSD 4.x kernel has no kernel threads. The JDKs rely on kernel
> > > threads 
> > 
> > Nope.  The only thing kernel threads provide is the ability to utilise
> > multiple CPUs.  The JDK will work quite well with FreeBSD's userland
> > pthreads (we just have to finish this part of the porting).
> 
> Don't forget Hotspot.  That requires (according to Nate) the ability to 
> have multiple system calls pending.

According to Sun, who told Nate.  However, they've since backed off on
that, but not completely.

> P.S. There's irony for you: develop on desktop FreeBSD, but deploy servers
> on Linux.

No worse than developing on FreeBSD and deploying on Windows/Solaris. :)




Nate

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