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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:43:38PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
> What's wrong with OpenJIT and TYA?  HotSpot isn't the only JVM out
> there.  As a matter of fact, it isn't necessarily the fastest JVM out
> there.

Because it's not commerical and it's not from Sun. Regardless of how
technically able those compilers are they are not going to compare to the
perception that HotSpot has currently and will make the FreeBSD JVM project
only be percieved as second rate until it's fully working.

It works under Win32, Linux, etc... so it must work with FreeBSD. It's as
simple as that and industry pressure driven regardless of the technical
merits of those compilers. And from what I've seen from benchmarks, HotSpot
is still closely competitive to the IBM compiler which is considered to
be the fastest around.

bill


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