Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:21:33 +1030 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD JDK 1.3.1_p8 HotSpot not loading from jre/lib/ext??? Message-ID: <20030314162133.A86664@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <200303140149.02005.antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>; from antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:49:00AM %2B0000 References: <200303120835.AA1746731258@mail.mstar2.net> <200303130053.19295.antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com> <20030314065318.A85007@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <200303140149.02005.antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:49:00AM +0000, Antony T Curtis wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2003 8:23 pm, Greg Lewis wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:53:17AM +0000, Antony T Curtis wrote: > > > On a semi-related thought... Will patchset 9 be adjusted for hotspot to > > > use the system gcc on -STABLE (ie gcc 2.9 instead of 3.2)... And will it > > > be possible to have the JDK compiled so that -classic and -hotspot builds > > > can coexist? > > > > Maybe and maybe, respectively. It depends on volunteer time and interest. > > At the moment noone is specifically working on these issues (that I know > > of). > > For #2, I don't know what is so different when hotspot is enabled... My guess > is that there must be some quirk in the native threading/ green threading and > the libc_r and libc.... Probably. > I'm very tempted to try recompiling the whole shebang with -pthread set for > gcc. Hmmm, not sure that green threads would be very keen on this. > > > I have successfully compiled up p8 on my box with the system compiler and > > > it appears to work well. I have also examined the work in jdk1.4 and > > > merged it into 1.3 so that it no longer depends on the uthread_private.h > > > kernel source. > > > > Where are the patches available? :). > > Attached - All I can say about it is that "make -DNODEBUG -DWITH_HOTSPOT > - -DNATIVE_BOOTSTRAP" works great for me ;) Thanks! Much appreciated :). That makes us almost free of the pthread internals. > > > A "nice" little fun test for java is at www.motionplayground.com > > > With it, you notice that JDK1.3p8 is still way slower than JDK1.4p3 > > > And that JDK1.3p7+tya can perform more smoothly than p8... > > > So - theres still some important issues in hotspot in 1.3. > > > (I used Konq to launch the applet) > > > > It does feel like HotSpot in 1.4.1 is more solid and performing better > > than HotSpot in 1.3.1. We basically need someone to step up to working > > on HotSpot in 1.3.1. > > I wouldn't mind having a crack at it - but I rarely have the time nowadays :( Unfortunately thats usually the case :(. There are always more projects than there is developer time. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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