From owner-freebsd-java Tue Mar 23 13:19:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.iwaynet.net (smtp.iwaynet.net [198.30.29.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CFDD14D65 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:19:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@lojic.com) Received: from daytona (overkill.Progressive-Systems.Com [209.41.220.250]) by smtp.iwaynet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA04338; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:18:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990323161644.0103a7a0@mailbox.iwaynet.net> X-Sender: adkins@mailbox.iwaynet.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:18:37 -0500 To: Steve Price From: Brian Adkins Subject: FreeBSD Java (was Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux ) Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990323154644.0153a1f0@mailbox.iwaynet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:08 PM 3/23/99 -0600, Steve Price wrote: >On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Brian Adkins wrote: > ># So what do we have to do to get a solid JIT? Is it a matter of developer ># time, or are there other issues involved? If we could compete with ># Microsoft's and Sun's Java performance/reliability, I would probably become ># the #1 FreeBSD evangelist in a short time :) I mean, I love it as it is, ># but if it had a Java as least as good as Windows NT, I'd be ecstatic! > >I've been playing with TYA. It is pretty good from what I can >tell from using it, but it is GPL'd so I haven't dug into the >code and tried to fix the few problems that I've found so far. Have you tried Kaffe? If so, what do you think? I've looked at their web site but for the life of me I can't see what version of the JDK they support. ># Doesn't the Java 2 platform include Symantec's JIT? Will we get that with ># the port? > >Yes the Sun implementation has it (and Blackdown's too I think) >but the source is not publically available, so our port won't >come with it. :( Well how did Blackdown get it, and more importantly, how do we get it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message