From owner-freebsd-java Wed Aug 15 10:15:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC32937B40D for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA23425; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:13:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00934; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:13:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15226.44490.773630.886484@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:13:46 -0600 To: Michael Robinson Cc: Greg Lewis , java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: java status and In-Reply-To: <20010816010848.A1124@elephant.netrinsics.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9EB2@l04.research.kpn.com> <20010816012839.A95425@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20010816010848.A1124@elephant.netrinsics.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message