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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:07:00 -0500
From:      "Gene W. Homicki" <gwh@spiders.com>
To:        java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TowerJ for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19990124230700.J28999@spiders.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901250221.TAA03659@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 07:21:53PM -0700
References:  <199901250143.RAA23403@bubba.whistle.com> <199901250153.RAA07328@rah.star-gate.com> <199901250221.TAA03659@mt.sri.com>

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 | Also, once we get a good working JDK1.2, JDK1.2.1 will be released.
 | Someone should feed the patches back to sun.  What about JIT support?
 | What about relations with a JIT vendor?
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The Solaris/x86 JDK1.2 has a JIT - I don't suppose those sources are
available from Sun for porting?

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 | Sure it would, but have you approached them and asked for support?  Have
 | you offered to buy a license?  As has been shown in the past, calls for
 | 'talking to a vendor' have never been much use on getting software
 | ported to FreeBSD.  It takes motivated people willing to do it alone and
 | doing more than send an email saying 'me too' to convince a vendor.
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I've started that process.  How hard I push them will depend on our real 
need - and other options that I'm looking into.  

Gene

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Gene W. Homicki                               gwh@spiders.com
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