Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 08:41:06 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk> Cc: alk@pobox.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Daemonising a Java Process: Possible? Message-ID: <199809091441.IAA13097@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199809082154.WAA00626@fdy2.demon.co.uk> References: <13813.27934.606377.693358@compound.east> <199809082154.WAA00626@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
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> >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
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