From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 4 14:35: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BF537B423 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 14:34:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from dendennis.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.2] helo=dendennis) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 14vnDf-0006tm-02; Sat, 05 May 2001 09:34:35 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" To: "Donn Miller" Cc: "Robert Hellwig" , "Rasputin" , Subject: RE: Still having problems with the jdk12beta port Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 09:34:05 +1200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010504171441.G39682-100000@acs-24-154-37-140.zoominternet.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :: So, which are you better off installing? jdk12-beta is a native :: port, and :: gives much faster performance. linux-jdk13 seems more sluggish, and :: it lacks a JIT feature, AFAIK. OTOH, it has the newest Java features :: compared to jdk 1.2.2. Does the jdk12-beta port have a JIT feature? Are :: there enough features added in 1.3 to justify installing linux-jdk13 as :: opposed to jdk12-beta? Well, hrrmm... in my case, I was just obeying the Java developers' orders, and installed linux-jdk 1.3. We're running Resin (www.caucho.com) and JDK 1.3 is supposed to offer better performance and so forth. No empirical evidence of that though... Java and good performace are two concepts that don't seem to go together for me. ;-) I had to make it use the "classic" VM though, which presumably shaves off some performance. I could be wrong about this, but FreeBSD doesn't seem to be the best platform currently to run Java on. Had a quick look through the ports, and it seems that the available JITs only work with JDK 1.1.8? As for features etc. well, you could sift through the huge amount of documents at Sun's Java site... -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message