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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:05:34 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Ari Suutari <ari@suutari.iki.fi>, <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Linux jdk 1.3 and Hotspot works!?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103081404450.7758-100000@calliope.cs.brandeis.edu>
In-Reply-To: <15015.53314.172236.351666@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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I'll be rebuilding and testing IBM JDK later today.
If it works I think we all owe somebody lots of beer...

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

>
> Ari Suutari writes:
>  > It seems that upgrade to -STABLE removed warning messages
>  > issued by hotspot.
>
> Yes; Marcel and I fixed those problems with the Linux abi support a few
> months ago in FreeBSD-current and merged the changes back to -stable
> last month in time for the  FreeBSD 4.3 release cycle:
>
>  >                        "native threads" seem to be emulated by processes,
>  > ps -axu
>  > shows on java process per thread when running threaded stuff (like Volano
>  > benchmark,
>  > which by the way doesn't show similar huge increase in speed).
>  >
>
> Just FYI, native threads on linux _are_ processes; they're very
> heavyweight and not terribly scalable, given how the linux scheduler
> works.
>
> FWIW, you should also be able to run the IBM JDK 1.3, which I think is
> faster than the Sun version.  I'm running an older version of this and
> it works fine here.
>
> Lastly, Compaq's Linux JDK works on FreeBSD/alpha.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Drew
>
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