From owner-freebsd-java Wed Sep 9 07:41:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21169 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 07:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21163 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 07:41:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA22987; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 08:41:21 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA13097; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 08:41:06 -0600 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 08:41:06 -0600 Message-Id: <199809091441.IAA13097@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Robert Swindells Cc: alk@pobox.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Daemonising a Java Process: Possible? In-Reply-To: <199809082154.WAA00626@fdy2.demon.co.uk> References: <13813.27934.606377.693358@compound.east> <199809082154.WAA00626@fdy2.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >Frankly my interest in developing (as in *using*) Java utilities > >for FreeBSD is much abated by the lack of a respectable Java > >environment for FreeBSD. This is not intended as a disparagement of > >the FreeBSD JDK -- but I think everyone understands that it performs > >quite poorly. Kaffe doesn't work with Swing, and may never work with > >Swing from what I hear (and has very poor GC behaviour, which acts as > >a glass ceiling on performance, again). > > I find the performance of the existing JDK acceptable on a PII-233, but > I wouldn't want to run it on anything slower. I would rather develop > under FreeBSD anyway, even if it is a bit slower. > > To speed up compile times I use the Linux version of IBM's jikes > compiler. For what it's worth, I've been on the phone with TowerJ lately, and there is *definite* interest in their providing a native FreeBSD port of their product, which is essentially a executable maker. Given that our JDK is a poor performer but is now pretty stable, this is a good thing. If/when it happens I plan on 'converting' the development tools into executables, which should also speed up performance. > I am currently looking at taking the JIT from Kaffe-0.9.2 and building it > into a shared library that will load into our JDK. > > The reason for picking 0.9.2 is that it was the last version released > under a BSD style licence, so we would be able to just release the > binary for it. Cool! Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message