From owner-freebsd-java Mon Dec 10 1:15:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (cx739861-a.dt1.sdca.home.com [24.5.164.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4075F37B419 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 01:15:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16DMWx-0001hE-00; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 01:15:23 -0800 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 01:15:23 -0800 To: Greg Lewis Cc: Bill Huey , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jdk1.3.1p5 Message-ID: <20011210091523.GA6505@gnuppy> References: <20011210001702.10731.qmail@web14303.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210024138.GA3148@gnuppy> <20011210171623.D73467@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011210171623.D73467@misty.eyesbeyond.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i From: Bill Huey Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:16:23PM +1030, Greg Lewis wrote: > HotSpot is very very important. Its the performance piece we're lacking > to get FreeBSD accepted as a really solid alternative for serving Java > based web apps and the like. I _think_ that native threads may also > be a prerequisite for HotSpot... All I saw was a synchronization class in pthreads, but not green, so I'm assuming you have to have a fully working native threading layer before you can do HotSpot. > My part in this is to obviously get your patches out in a new patchset > so we can get some more eyes and testers on this. Unfortunately I've It's pre-alpha quality at this time and won't be ready for beta until I fix the pthreads issue(s). > had to work most of the weekend and haven't gotten a complete handle > on things :(. Patchset 6 is still under production... Sure, do what you must. It was strange that I got a lack of response from the community in general about this topic, which is why I thought people's largely casual reaction to it was bizzare in recently interactions. (/me shakes head) I'm debugging my pthreads changes now and will post it when it's ready. ;-) bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message