Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:28:48 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: 'Mike Gratton' <mike@vee.net> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Ugrade from linux-jdk to native Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA3C7@l04.research.kpn.com>
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Dear Mike,
>
> I don't know under which circumstances it is true, but
> apparently using
> Hotspot can make Java bytecode execute as fast as or faster than
> natively compiled C++ code. Sorry, no references, this is just what I
> heard around it's introduction.
>
Would you introduce a JIT, saying it is slower than its predecessors? :-)
HP has written an HP9000 emu that runs code faster than the host it runs
on(!). I believe it's arstechnica.com that had an article on this. Slashdot
carries a few references to articles, but I have no time to search for them.
In a project with text parsers I have seen a quick 'n dirty interpreted
parser run rings around a carefully handtuned C parser. We found out the
interpreted parser fit entirely into the instruction cache of the host,
while the C parser was several times larger than that cache.
Kees Jan
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[Steven Wright]
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