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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:15:15 -0500
From:      Gabor Kincses <gabor@nameprotect.com>
To:        Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
Cc:        Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr>, Ian Jenkinson <ian.jenkinson@blueyonder.co.uk>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Threads in Java on a variety of platforms
Message-ID:  <3B4BB6B3.1103723D@nameprotect.com>
References:  <000201c1086c$433a29e0$0a64a8c0@buxtongw> <20010710004206.A80869@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20010710143850.B12282@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> <20010711014819.A58979@misty.eyesbeyond.com>

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Greg Lewis wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:38:50PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:42:06AM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > This is something that has been bugging me for a while: would it be good to
> > implement the native threads in FreeBSD under LinuxThreads or NGPT? I see that
> > KSE's are taking off, but there is a long way ahead. I am thinking of something
> > like a straight port of the Linux JDK native threads. Have you contemplated this
> > in your 1.3 porting efforts, or did you stick to green threads?
> 
> At the moment, I've only gotten green threads "working" in the 1.3.1 port.
> However, I think that a LinuxThreads or NGPT implementation of native
> threads may be useful until KSE's become standard on FreeBSD.  Saying that,
> it would likely be restricted to source code patches and not
> become part of any binary distribution we may be able to make due to
> the licensing.  We might be able to work on that though, given they are
> both LGPL rather than GPL (I think, not 100% sure on NGPT).  The primary
> threading mechanism for native threads would always be something that
> came as part of the stock FreeBSD distribution however.

I'm REALLY happy to see a 1.3 port coming down the pike.  I have already
told our sysadmin to reimage the RH 7.1 slimlines with FBSD 4.3.  ;-)

Which leads to another question: what is the status of the HotSpot VM? 
(Enhydra is pretty slow without a JIT).

-- 
Gabor Kincses
Running FreeBSD 4.3-RC3

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