Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:23:35 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wake up call for Sun? Message-ID: <15808.1927.423109.796378@emerger.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20021030182502.A52856@phantom.cris.net> 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> <20021030182502.A52856@phantom.cris.net>
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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. > > Yep. It will help a lot, but... > > * Only after it get into usable shape (it's pretty expiremental now) True. > * Only after signaling become working (not yet implmeneted) I thought they had gotten signaling working as well as could be expected? > * Only after 5.x-RELEASE become real and stable release (not early than > 6 months from now, per current estimates) I'm guessing that something like the JDK would be a great way to wring out the bits, so the sooner someone starts working on porting the JDK to using it, the quicker the bugs will get found and fixed. I doubt anything would be as good at testing the code than the JDK. :) :) > * And last, assuming KSE stuff working as expected (looks promising > and quite real) We can hope... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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