From owner-freebsd-java Wed Dec 9 20:44:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27547 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 20:44:34 -0800 (PST) (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 UAA27539 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 20:44:33 -0800 (PST) (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 VAA04783; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:44:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA20914; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:44:24 -0700 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:44:24 -0700 Message-Id: <199812100444.VAA20914@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chuck Robey Cc: Matthew Dillon , java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Jikes (java source -> byte code compiler) released in open-source form In-Reply-To: References: <199812091934.LAA46855@apollo.backplane.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ Moved to -java ] > > The thing compiles using, in jikesos/jikes/src/Makefile as shown below. > > It works! I'm impressed! > > Can you be a little more detailed about the environment of your test > app? JDK?.? ? Any JFC in the app? I'm really curious. Jikes works fine. I haven't stress tested it completely on my (fairly complex) JFC applications, but it appears to work fine. However, I should note that the Linux jikes binary is still faster than the FreeBSD native binary I compiled. (In case you weren't aware, Jikes is a replacement for javac, and only javac. No VM, but the compiler is at least 10X faster than javac). Some things to note. Applets compiled with jikes don't always work the same as applets compiled with javac. Some people have reported that jikes compiled applets won't pass the byte-code verifier test in certain browsers, but this was with older versions of Jikes. Newer versions of jikes are supposed to have fixed it, but the reporters haven't updated to test this yet. (This from another mailing list I'm on.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message