From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 18 22:03:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA14701 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:03:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@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 WAA14696; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:03:14 -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 XAA07196; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:02:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id XAA02331; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:02:46 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:02:46 -0700 Message-Id: <199811190602.XAA02331@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Robinson Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, gunther@aurora.rg.iupui.edu Subject: Re: green threads vs. native threads ... In-Reply-To: <199811190202.KAA29588@public.bta.net.cn> References: <199811190202.KAA29588@public.bta.net.cn> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ Moved from -stable to -current, since -stable will never see any such move ] > >> I came in on this thread late, so I'm not sure if this has been asked, but > >> does the FreeBSD-Java team have any plans for a native threads VM? > > > >You have to have native-threads in the OS before you can expect to have > >the JDK use them. It's kind of a moot point to ask for the JDK to use > >something that doesn't exist. > > Would it be a moot point to ask for the FreeBSD kernel to support native > threads? Sure. Patches to implement them are gladly accepted. Oh, you mean forcing someone to implement threads in FreeBSD? Naw, that's not the way it's done. New features get done because someone thems to be done and does them. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message