Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:06:27 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wake up call for Sun? Message-ID: <15807.26835.639866.242544@emerger.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20021030151812.A30986@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210291835380.2712-100000@iole.cs.brandeis.edu> <20021030142457.A30528@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <15807.23103.607937.532250@emerger.yogotech.com> <20021030151812.A30986@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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> > > 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. > > > > For scalability purposes, they would need 'native' FreeBSD threads. The > > linux thread stuff works, but doesn't scale more. > > True. I note that there is now a KSE based pthreads library in -CURRENT. > This will eventually become the target for the JDK, which will hopefully > address a lot of issues in this regard. This will help alot. Now if we just get the legal stuff working. :) :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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