Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:13:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Java <java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sun Keynote at JavaCon2000 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010041211410.3367-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200010041557.JAA00298@nomad.yogotech.com>
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > Oh man, is that ever good news. But we'll wait and see.
> > >
> > > [...Sun announced that JDK 1.3 will be ported to FreeBSD...]
> >
> > I hope they'll port HotSpot while they're at it. The performance
> > improvement is dramatic.
>
> In order to get 'dramatic' performance, we need kernel threads. FreeBSD
> doesn't (yet) have kernel threads.
I don't disagree; however, my own experience was that the quality
of the JIT makes an enormous difference (factor of ten, by my
observation: IBM JDK 1.3.0's JVM executes the LINPACK benchmark ten
times faster than Blackdown's 1.2.2 or Kaffe's JVM).
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (at yourfit.com)
behanna@zbzoom.net
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