From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 23:25:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA11924 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:25:46 -0800 Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (news@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA11917 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:25:38 -0800 Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (sendmail) id PAA25897 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:25:12 +0800 (WST) Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: 28 Nov 1995 15:24:55 +0800 From: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) Message-ID: <49edg7$p8s$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. References: , <199511270733.IAA01488@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Java.. Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) writes: >> I just downloaded 2.0b3 for Linux to check out the Java support. It seems >> to be running at a decent speed, so that's good. But since I've been >> using FreeBSD for all my Internet applications, since the PPP speed in >> Linux is basically crap (2.8Kbps vs. 3.2Kbps for FreeBSD!), I also D/Led >define something crap because of such a small (in absolute terms, not >relative ones) difference in speed seems a bit too much! >> the BSD version, and even though there is no Java, it did fix ALL of the >> bugs I reported (non-blinking cursor, and problems with my dial-on-demand >the non-blinking cursor was a more general problem with timer events >which were not listened to when waiting for X events. This also >affected dynamic pages using the client-pull mechanism, and possibly >other features. No, it wasn't that.. The bsdi 2.0b2 binary *wasn't even calling* any of the timer system calls, or setting a SIGALRM handler, etc. It was a downright programming botchup on Netscape's part, not the fault of the *BSD kernels. I suspect they screwed up their #ifdef's. -Peter > Luigi >==================================================================== >Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione >email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa >tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) >fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ >====================================================================