From owner-freebsd-java Tue Oct 29 19:55:11 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 B656B37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:55:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mgr3.xmission.com (mgr3.xmission.com [198.60.22.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE8A43E4A for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:55:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from mail by mgr3.xmission.com with spam-scanned (Exim 3.35 #1) id 186jwi-0007jU-03; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:55:08 -0700 Received: from [207.135.128.145] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mgr3.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 186jwg-0007iR-03; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:55:07 -0700 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9U3sxh30561; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:24:59 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:24:57 +1030 From: Greg Lewis To: Mikhail Kruk Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wake up call for Sun? Message-ID: <20021030142457.A30528@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from meshko@cs.brandeis.edu on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:59:00PM -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.8 required=8.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT,X_AUTH_WARNING version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: 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 Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:59:00PM -0500, Mikhail Kruk wrote: > Maybe this belongs more on the advocacy list, then please forgive me, > but I thikn this is an interesting read: > http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm > in particular slide 24. > > Yahoo engineer is talking about why they selected PHP as the new scripting > platform for Yahoo.com. > > ...as far as I understand we are quite close to having a *real* Java > implementation on FreeBSD now, and I, as everyone else, really appreaciate > the job that the gudid on the porting effort, I just think that Sun may > realize now that it should have been a bit more helpful with the FreeBSD > port. I read the same thing, but I wasn't quite sure what he was driving at. As I recall the slide mentioned something about threading problems. So, either they were using the Linux version and HotSpot was crashing or they wanted to use the native version on an SMP box and use some sort of kernel threading so it would use all of the processors. I'd like to know more information about what they tried and what was the problem. Sun are actually pretty helpful, its more that things haven't quite gone as planned on our end. Mainly the reality of us all being volunteers. -- 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