Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:46:18 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Gene W. Homicki" <gwh@spiders.com> Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TowerJ for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199901250646.XAA04606@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <19990124230700.J28999@spiders.com> References: <199901250143.RAA23403@bubba.whistle.com> <199901250153.RAA07328@rah.star-gate.com> <199901250221.TAA03659@mt.sri.com> <19990124230700.J28999@spiders.com>
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> | Also, once we get a good working JDK1.2, JDK1.2.1 will be released. > | Someone should feed the patches back to sun. What about JIT support? > | What about relations with a JIT vendor? > +--- > > The Solaris/x86 JDK1.2 has a JIT - I don't suppose those sources are > available from Sun for porting? The JIT is the symantec JIT, and is Win32 specific. Solaris X86 does not use the symantec JIT. The Solaris JIT sources are not released. :( > | Sure it would, but have you approached them and asked for support? Have > | you offered to buy a license? As has been shown in the past, calls for > | 'talking to a vendor' have never been much use on getting software > | ported to FreeBSD. It takes motivated people willing to do it alone and > | doing more than send an email saying 'me too' to convince a vendor. > > I've started that process. How hard I push them will depend on our real > need - and other options that I'm looking into. Good deal! Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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