Date: 28 Nov 1995 15:24:55 +0800 From: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java.. Message-ID: <49edg7$p8s$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951126111510.320A-100000@localhost>, <199511270733.IAA01488@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) writes: >> I just downloaded 2.0b3 for Linux to check out the Java support. It seems >> to be running at a decent speed, so that's good. But since I've been >> using FreeBSD for all my Internet applications, since the PPP speed in >> Linux is basically crap (2.8Kbps vs. 3.2Kbps for FreeBSD!), I also D/Led >define something crap because of such a small (in absolute terms, not >relative ones) difference in speed seems a bit too much! >> the BSD version, and even though there is no Java, it did fix ALL of the >> bugs I reported (non-blinking cursor, and problems with my dial-on-demand >the non-blinking cursor was a more general problem with timer events >which were not listened to when waiting for X events. This also >affected dynamic pages using the client-pull mechanism, and possibly >other features. No, it wasn't that.. The bsdi 2.0b2 binary *wasn't even calling* any of the timer system calls, or setting a SIGALRM handler, etc. It was a downright programming botchup on Netscape's part, not the fault of the *BSD kernels. I suspect they screwed up their #ifdef's. -Peter > Luigi >==================================================================== >Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione >email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa >tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) >fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ >====================================================================
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