From owner-freebsd-java Tue Feb 11 12:20:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E2A437B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:20:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from b.smtp-out.sonic.net (b.smtp-out.sonic.net [208.201.224.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D8D043F3F for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:20:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from milo@cyberlifelabs.com) Received: (qmail 18876 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2003 20:20:57 -0000 Received: from ultra.sonic.net (208.201.224.22) by b.smtp-out.sonic.net with SMTP; 11 Feb 2003 20:20:57 -0000 Received: from cyberlifelabs.com (adsl-64-142-14-252.sonic.net [64.142.14.252]) by ultra.sonic.net (8.11.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id h1BKKuv20049 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:20:56 -0800 X-envelope-info: Message-ID: <3E495B28.2070807@cyberlifelabs.com> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:20:56 -0800 From: Milo Hyson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20030120 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Java Mailing List Subject: Re: IBM JDK status References: <3E48A577.6030009@cyberlifelabs.com> <20030212030813.A39631@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lewis wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:25:43PM -0800, Milo Hyson wrote: > >>What's the current status of the IBM JDK (either 1.3.1 or 1.4)? I know >>the System.exit() bug is the big holdup -- it's the only thing keeping >>me from using it. Is the issue a lack of available man-hours (I may be >>able to help), or is there some other business/political issue? > > > Its a time thing. It may not even be a difficult problem to fix, it > just needs someone to sit down and spend some time on it. Using ktrace > on FreeBSD and comparing it to the strace output on Linux may well be > enlightenment enough. I'll take a crack at it. >>I'd hate to have to add a Linux box to my all-FreeBSD network just to >>run Java (HotSpot on FreeBSD seems a bit unstable at the moment). >>However, considering the fact that a P5-200 with Linux runs Java over >>16x faster than an Athlon 1 GHz with FreeBSD, I just may. Any help I can >>offer in this area I will provide gladly if it means keeping with FreeBSD. > > > Are you just using the JDK as is on FreeBSD? If so I recommend trying it > with one of the available JITs (OpenJIT, shuJIT). I've tried both on several systems, installing from ports and source. They're unstable. They work for a few minutes and then segfault. -- Milo Hyson CyberLife Labs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message