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> : 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 was using the Linux version with no problems, for as long as the
> demo license lasted.  It does speed performance by an order of
> magnitude.

Cool.

> I ended up relying upon the towerized native version of
> the pizza compiler, since javac was so buggy (both on solaris and
> fbsd) and interpreted was so slow (on bsd).

Can you qualify that statement?  In my experience, we've had more
problems with the pizza compiler than the Solaris compiler.


Nate

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