From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Jan 4 13:28:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DBF14EDF for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:28:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25824; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:27:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <200001042127.NAA25824@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Bob Shaw , emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux_base-6.1: Are Linux threads supported? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jan 2000 12:47:08 MST." <200001041947.MAA14347@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 13:27:58 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I'd like to install Blackdown JDK 1.2.2 RC3 on FreeBSD 3.4 > > with linux_base-6.1. I know there are some Blackdown problems with > > native threads, but I have not been able to determine whether there > > are any FreeBSD-specific problems that will remain once Blackdown > > gets their release fixed. Will native threads at the JDK level map to > > native threads at the FreeBSD 3.4 level? (If so, is there any idea how > > performance will compare to native Linux?) > > FreeBSD has no native 'kernel threads', so it won't help out. However, > the Linux JIT is a *big* improvement. I could have sworn to have used linux kernel threads in FreeBSD 8) -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message