From owner-freebsd-java Fri Sep 25 17:29:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18469 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:29:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au (spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18444 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.4/8.8.4/UofA-1.5) id JAA24263 for java@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 09:59:20 +0930 (CST) From: Gregory D Lewis Message-Id: <199809260029.JAA24263@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: A new JIT for Linux To: java@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 09:59:20 +0930 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >From another list I read, but certainly relevant to this one in terms of JITs for FreeBSD (obviously running under Linux emulation though). > http://www.internetwire.com/technews/tn/tn980967.htx > > 09/25/98 -- AUSTIN, TX, -- Metrowerks Inc. (NASDAQ: MTWKF, > TSE/ME:MWK) announces today that it will license its Java > Acceleration Technology for PowerPC(tm) to the Linux > community. Metrowerks' Java technology, a Just-in-Time (JIT) > compiler, will be provided to Linux users under a free > non-commercial license similar to that used by Sun's Java > Development Source code. > > Metrowerks' CodeWarrior Java acceleration technology provides a > drop-in, JIT compiler for the LinuxPPC and MkLinux ported Java > Development Kit (JDK). The CodeWarrior JIT compiler increases the > performance of Sun's JDK by a factor of five to ten on most > machines, by efficiently compiling the Java byte-codes into machine > code for a particular CPU at run-time. > > Linux users may port Metrowerks' JIT compiler to run on x86, Alpha > and Sparc and other UNIX platforms that do not currently have access > to a commercial quality JIT compiler. The Blackdown JDK porters, an > organized group of volunteers porting Sun's JDK to Linux, have > already agreed to help port this JIT to other versions of Linux and > make those ports freely available in binary code. -- Greg Lewis Applied Maths Department Email : glewis@maths.adelaide.edu.au University of Adelaide -- It is the business of the future to be dangerous. -- Hawkwind To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message