From owner-freebsd-java Wed Oct 4 9:13: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-99.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B72337B66D for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e94GDVk03545 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:13:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:13:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net To: FreeBSD-Java Subject: Re: Sun Keynote at JavaCon2000 In-Reply-To: <200010041557.JAA00298@nomad.yogotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Nate Williams wrote: > > > Oh man, is that ever good news. But we'll wait and see. > > > > > > [...Sun announced that JDK 1.3 will be ported to FreeBSD...] > > > > I hope they'll port HotSpot while they're at it. The performance > > improvement is dramatic. > > In order to get 'dramatic' performance, we need kernel threads. FreeBSD > doesn't (yet) have kernel threads. I don't disagree; however, my own experience was that the quality of the JIT makes an enormous difference (factor of ten, by my observation: IBM JDK 1.3.0's JVM executes the LINPACK benchmark ten times faster than Blackdown's 1.2.2 or Kaffe's JVM). -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message