Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:24:57 +1030 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu> Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wake up call for Sun? Message-ID: <20021030142457.A30528@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210291835380.2712-100000@iole.cs.brandeis.edu>; from meshko@cs.brandeis.edu on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:59:00PM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210291835380.2712-100000@iole.cs.brandeis.edu>
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:59:00PM -0500, Mikhail Kruk wrote: > Maybe this belongs more on the advocacy list, then please forgive me, > but I thikn this is an interesting read: > http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm > in particular slide 24. > > Yahoo engineer is talking about why they selected PHP as the new scripting > platform for Yahoo.com. > > ...as far as I understand we are quite close to having a *real* Java > implementation on FreeBSD now, and I, as everyone else, really appreaciate > the job that the gudid on the porting effort, I just think that Sun may > realize now that it should have been a bit more helpful with the FreeBSD > port. I read the same thing, but I wasn't quite sure what he was driving at. As I recall the slide mentioned something about threading problems. So, either they were using the Linux version and HotSpot was crashing or they wanted to use the native version on an SMP box and use some sort of kernel threading so it would use all of the processors. I'd like to know more information about what they tried and what was the problem. Sun are actually pretty helpful, its more that things haven't quite gone as planned on our end. Mainly the reality of us all being volunteers. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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