Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:04:15 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wake up call for Sun? Message-ID: <15807.23103.607937.532250@emerger.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20021030142457.A30528@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210291835380.2712-100000@iole.cs.brandeis.edu> <20021030142457.A30528@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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> > 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. For scalability purposes, they would need 'native' FreeBSD threads. The linux thread stuff works, but doesn't scale more. Plus, the person who was pushing the effort was a big PHP fan, so there was little liklihood Java would have been chosen. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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