Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:35:16 -0800 (PST) From: david.myers@Corp.Sun.COM To: rgireyev@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A pointed question: SMP directions... Message-ID: <199712052335.PAA23091@concord.Corp.Sun.COM> In-Reply-To: <19971205232212.1671.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>
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> I didn't realize that kernel level JAVA support was even being > contemplated. Under Solaris, not FreeBSD, so far as I know. > Lastly, David, if you want to experiment you can dual boot the machine > with FreeBSD and Solaris. Good way to see first hand the performance > differences :-) Perhaps I'm not being clear. I "experiment" (if you can call it that) with Solaris every day at work. That's not what I'm asking about. I want to know how much progress the SMP team in FreeBSD thinks it's making. I want to know where they're headed, what problems they see; what they'd wish for in the 3.0 release. I want to know how long it will take before FreeBSD matches (or comes close to matching) the fine-grained SMP support that Solaris has. In short, I'm looking for both technical and emotional reasons for staying with FreeBSD. I like FreeBSD and would like to stay with it, but the feature list of Solaris relative to my applications (i.e., Java) and hardware (i.e., dual PPro box) looks compelling. -David. ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^ David Myers Sun Microsystems Java Technologist david.myers@corp.sun.com Strategic Sales Area (650) 614-6907 ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^
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