Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:59:42 -0300 From: Roberto de Iriarte <rdeiriar@spock.cl> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Patchlevel 4 report. Message-ID: <3F98A3AE.6020704@spock.cl>
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I could not help but notice the complaints about the difficulties to get native Java running on FreeBSD. For a change, i wanted to say just thanks for the excellent work, i've found the new patchlevel to be very stable (on libc_r and libkse) and excellent performing (especially on libkse) For those who complain, in my experience, no J2SE implementation has been perfect, ever, but FreeBSD's 1.4.1 patchlevel 4 seems among the better ones in the limited testing that i've been able to perform so far, and i have seen really bad ones, like CompaQ J2SE 1.3 for Alpha, that would not complete VolanoMark if the JIT was enabled, even after eating up 2GB of ram, not to speak of the horrible performance of the Linux J2SE for Alpha, that was not even able to complete the Java2D demo! Somebody mentioned Apple's J2SE, it has bugs too (i've found nowhere to complain nor ways to debug it, the wonders of packaged software ....). Try to run the Car Configurator applet at http://www.bmw.de/ to experience one (It runs perfectly on FreeBSD native 1.4.1p4 plugin) FYI, i'm running CURRENT as of yesterday % uname -a FreeBSD netvista.spock.cl 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Thu Oct 23 01:45:10 CLST 2003 root@netvista.spock.cl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Thanks again! Regards Roberto
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