From owner-freebsd-java Tue Jul 2 17:14:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 777D437B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:14:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2901F43E0A for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:14:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from absinthe@pobox.com) Received: from dhcp068-64-151-24.nt01-c4.cpe.charter-ne.com ([24.151.64.68] helo=laredo.retrovertigo.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17PXmu-0004ma-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 20:14:28 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@pobox.com To: Subject: Re: Is there any advantage of running a native port? Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:15:22 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <000c01c2220b$fe9f1ba0$0a0119ac@raidworks.com> In-Reply-To: <000c01c2220b$fe9f1ba0$0a0119ac@raidworks.com> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207022015.22193.absinthe@pobox.com> 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 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 05:03pm, Bharath Sankaranarayan wrote: > Hello all: > I have read a few threads from the archive but I could not distinguish > the benefits. I see that you can run JDK with Linux port installed. Is > is like a subsystem under free bsd? Will there be any performance. > Reading bits and pieces I find that to get this going you will have to > download the SDK and compile etc. > I also read the news flash from Dec 2001 that the license from Sun is > thru. > When can one see FreeBSD port of JDK 1.2 or higher like the one under > ports for jdk 1.1.8 > Thanks > Bharath > (A free bsd newbie ) Hi Bharath, The native JDK starts up faster than the Linux JDK and seems to execute a little faster during runtime (in my opinion). The argument of stability probably is still in favor of the Linux JDK at the moment. But the native JDK is stable enough for most things and we always need more people using it for testing purposes. Cheers, -- Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message