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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Hot Java.. 
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 19:35:23 EDT
From: Christopher Provenzano  <proven@MIT.EDU>
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> 
> I'm looking over the sources here a little (I shouldn't, but I
> couldn't help myself) and it looks like it's going to be a bit of a
> bear.  It uses threads pretty aggressively, manipulating thread stack
> spaces and juggling their internal priorities in addition to all the
> usual create/destroy/block thread ops.  I haven't looked at pthreads
> lately, but I'd say it'll have to be fairly capable to deal with the
> demands made on it by Hot Java.  I also don't know whether or not Java
> assumes your libc to be thread safe, but I rather expect that it does.

All this and more comes with the latest pthreads.

> 
> Anyone interested in forming a Java interest group to discuss the
> porting of this to FreeBSD?  I think it's going to be a post-2.1
> project, and something of a long one at that.  It would make sense to
> combine effort.

Yes.
> 
> 					Jordan

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