Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 12:01:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hot Java.. Message-ID: <199504291001.MAA01769@knobel.GUN.de> In-Reply-To: <27759.798714237@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 24, 95 02:03:57 am
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> I'm looking over the sources here a little (I shouldn't, but I
> couldn't help myself) and it looks like it's going to be a bit of a
> bear. It uses threads pretty aggressively, manipulating thread stack
> spaces and juggling their internal priorities in addition to all the
> usual create/destroy/block thread ops. I haven't looked at pthreads
> lately, but I'd say it'll have to be fairly capable to deal with the
> demands made on it by Hot Java. I also don't know whether or not Java
> assumes your libc to be thread safe, but I rather expect that it does.
>
> Anyone interested in forming a Java interest group to discuss the
> porting of this to FreeBSD? I think it's going to be a post-2.1
> project, and something of a long one at that. It would make sense to
> combine effort.
What's so hot concerning java ? I'm running Netscape 1.1 for a while
and I didn't find any interesting / superior stuff in it compared
to Netscape. On thing was hot ... the size of the whole package ;-)
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