From owner-freebsd-java Sat Jul 15 20:30:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A74337B607 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:30:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA17905; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:30:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03276; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:30:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:30:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007160330.VAA03276@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Edward Wolpert Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Native threads with Java 1.2.2 port In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I was wondering if people were looking at native threads support in > the Java 1.2.2 port. What are the current problem associated with native > thread support. Since FreeBSD has no kernel threads available 'out of the box', there are no advantages to the existing threads package over the internal green threads implementation. Green threads are optimized for the JDK, so are more effecient. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message