From owner-freebsd-java Thu Feb 28 6:14:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEFD37B41A for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:14:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from vee.net (wintermute.home.vee.net [203.18.245.2]) by smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1SEE0a98460; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:44:05 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from mike@vee.net) Message-ID: <3C7E3A82.5040502@vee.net> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:41:14 +1030 From: Mike Gratton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020221 X-Accept-Language: en-au, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: j mckitrick Cc: "Koster, K.J." , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ugrade from linux-jdk to native References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA3BF@l04.research.kpn.com> <20020228140046.E74141@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 j mckitrick wrote: > > Dare I ask what 'hotspot' is? > Hotspot is Sun's high-performance JIT that has been shipping w/ their JREs since 1.3 (IIRC). Like any JIT, it speeds up the execution of your Java bytecode when you run it, and Hotspot is very good at this. I don't know under which circumstances it is true, but apparently using Hotspot can make Java bytecode execute as fast as or faster than natively compiled C++ code. Sorry, no references, this is just what I heard around it's introduction. Mike. -- Mike Gratton "Every motive escalate." Blatant self-promotion: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message