Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:15:15 -0500 From: Gabor Kincses <gabor@nameprotect.com> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr>, Ian Jenkinson <ian.jenkinson@blueyonder.co.uk>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads in Java on a variety of platforms Message-ID: <3B4BB6B3.1103723D@nameprotect.com> References: <000201c1086c$433a29e0$0a64a8c0@buxtongw> <20010710004206.A80869@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20010710143850.B12282@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> <20010711014819.A58979@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Greg Lewis wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:38:50PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:42:06AM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote: > > This is something that has been bugging me for a while: would it be good to > > implement the native threads in FreeBSD under LinuxThreads or NGPT? I see that > > KSE's are taking off, but there is a long way ahead. I am thinking of something > > like a straight port of the Linux JDK native threads. Have you contemplated this > > in your 1.3 porting efforts, or did you stick to green threads? > > At the moment, I've only gotten green threads "working" in the 1.3.1 port. > However, I think that a LinuxThreads or NGPT implementation of native > threads may be useful until KSE's become standard on FreeBSD. Saying that, > it would likely be restricted to source code patches and not > become part of any binary distribution we may be able to make due to > the licensing. We might be able to work on that though, given they are > both LGPL rather than GPL (I think, not 100% sure on NGPT). The primary > threading mechanism for native threads would always be something that > came as part of the stock FreeBSD distribution however. I'm REALLY happy to see a 1.3 port coming down the pike. I have already told our sysadmin to reimage the RH 7.1 slimlines with FBSD 4.3. ;-) Which leads to another question: what is the status of the HotSpot VM? (Enhydra is pretty slow without a JIT). -- Gabor Kincses Running FreeBSD 4.3-RC3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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