From owner-freebsd-java Wed Jul 3 9:48:43 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 3448937B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:48:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www10.networkshosting.com (www10.networkshosting.com [66.96.128.109]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1852A43E31 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:48:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bnarayan@raidworks.com) Received: (qmail 15367 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2002 16:52:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO raid1wxp03) (65.102.156.233) by -H with SMTP; 3 Jul 2002 16:52:30 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Bharath Sankaranarayan" To: Subject: RE: Is there any advantage of running a native port? Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:55:29 -0700 Organization: Premier Lease and Loan Services, Raidlab Message-ID: <000201c222b2$73485b00$0a0119ac@raidworks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200207022015.22193.absinthe@pobox.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Dylan: Thanks for the clarification. I guess I will try to use the native port. Is there one included in FreeBSD 4.6 ? Thanks Bharath -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Dylan Carlson Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:15 PM To: bnarayan@raidworks.com Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there any advantage of running a native port? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message