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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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