Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:49:39 -0800 From: Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> To: Anthony Green <green@redhat.com> Cc: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [press@apache.org: PRESS RELEASE: ASF Reaches Agreement with Sun to Allow Open Source Java Implementations] Message-ID: <20020329004939.GA1639@gnuppy.monkey.org> In-Reply-To: <1017330145.2206.84.camel@dhcppc2> References: <20020328002610.GA2023@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20020327221634.M1335-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> <20020328064218.GA2973@gnuppy.monkey.org> <1017330145.2206.84.camel@dhcppc2>
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:42:22AM -0800, Anthony Green wrote: > The performance of the resulting binaries is good. It's competitive > with state-of-the-art JIT systems. Meaning... sometimes faster, > sometimes slower. When it's faster, it can be much faster. For > instance, certain crypto operations used in SSL can run 10x faster than > state-of-the-art commercial JITs. What about garbage collection speed for short lived objects ? That's critical for folks doing a lot of String manipulation and dealing with the GUI framework generating EventObject-s every where. > And, finally, we get some relief on memory usage as well because we > build _shared_ libraries out of the enormous java core libraries as > opposed to each process JITting it's own copy of the code. Is it JNI compatible BTW ? Have folks talked about compiling the class libraries from Sun so that they're useable with gjc ? bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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