Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 23:23:03 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jdk on alpha Message-ID: <20030526212302.GE66136@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <16082.32022.793458.209912@emerger.yogotech.com> <20030526222142.A89689@phantom.cris.net> References: <20030526153641.GC55219@cicely12.cicely.de> <16082.16392.155803.403138@emerger.yogotech.com> <20030526165016.GB66136@cicely12.cicely.de> <16082.32022.793458.209912@emerger.yogotech.com> <20030526153641.GC55219@cicely12.cicely.de> <16082.16392.155803.403138@emerger.yogotech.com> <20030526165016.GB66136@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030526222142.A89689@phantom.cris.net>
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On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:21:42PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 06:50:17PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:25:44AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > What are the outstanding issues? > > > > > > > > I've read on http://kjkoster.org/java/content/newarch.jsp that > > > > invokeNative_alpha.s needs to be done. > > > > Is this still true? > > > > > > Yes. > > > > OK - that needs to be done. > > Keep in mind -- it's for classic VM only (i.e. no JIT and 1.3 only). Thanks for clarification. So I will have to start with jdk13. On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 02:46:14PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > > unless you're doing it for research purposes. My 486/66 box with 16MB > > > of memory blows the doors off my 500Mhz Alpha with 256MB of memory. > > > Java on the alpha is slow, piggy, and basically useless. > > > > Well - I can't argue on that, but having at least a runable java is > > required today in many cases - even in simple one such as web browsing. > > Again, it's *SO SLOW* as to be complete unusable. Again, my 486/66 > blows the doors off of the Alpha. Rendering a page on an Alpha using > Java is simply way too slow and resource hungry. I will see. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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