Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:11:46 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> To: Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> Cc: Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1.3.1 patchset 7 not quite ready Message-ID: <3D2DA032.2090403@bowtie.nl> References: <20020710234814.GE2394@gnuppy.monkey.org> <15660.64672.311655.234760@emerger.yogotech.com> <1026385676.781.30.camel@leeloo.intern.geht.de> <20020711111817.GA8289@gnuppy.monkey.org> <1026389333.781.49.camel@leeloo.intern.geht.de> <20020711145417.GA2578@gnuppy.monkey.org>
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Bill Huey wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:08:52PM +0200, Marc Recht wrote: > >>Cool! Can we've a patch ? Pretty please. :-) > > > Another thing that I need to ask is what's the relevance > of me working on HotSpot if you, say, could possibly run > it under Linux emulation ? Would it still be critical if > that was the case ? > I'm not sure if that would really help. Right now support for hotspot under the Linux emulation is broken because of the complicated stuff that sun uses to make their hotspot compiler running. This has been so ever since 1.3 came out, which is about two years ago now. So if you (or someone else) would make it work for now, it would propably still be an ongoing effort with every new release of the jdk for linux. Or at least that's what I'm afraid of. I also don't think there is an active maintainer of the emulator right now. Having a native binary, and the sources, being able to debug the problems, instead of reverse engineering the linux emulator with truss is definitely an advantage. Besides, wouldn't we be able to effectively use the (superior, at least one day :) when 5.0 comes out), threading system of FreeBSD with the native binary, to get superior performance ... :-) Marc. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen tel. +31 40 2 64 98 60 BowTie Technology fax. +31 40 2 64 98 61 Raiffeisenstraat 7 mailto:marc@bowtie.nl 5611 CH Eindhoven http://www.bowtie.nl ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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