From owner-freebsd-java Tue Jul 10 19:15:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from polarbear.nameprotect.com (mail.nameprotect.com [12.40.85.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B36037B408 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:15:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabor@nameprotect.com) Received: from nameprotect.com (gabor-bsd.nameprotect.com [192.168.1.161]) by polarbear.nameprotect.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 338Z60VJ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:11:22 -0500 Message-ID: <3B4BB6B3.1103723D@nameprotect.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:15:15 -0500 From: Gabor Kincses X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: hu, de-DE, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lewis Cc: Panagiotis Astithas , Ian Jenkinson , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads in Java on a variety of platforms References: <000201c1086c$433a29e0$0a64a8c0@buxtongw> <20010710004206.A80869@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20010710143850.B12282@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> <20010711014819.A58979@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message