Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:18:12 +1030 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wake up call for Sun? Message-ID: <20021030151812.A30986@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <15807.23103.607937.532250@emerger.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:04:15PM -0700 References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210291835380.2712-100000@iole.cs.brandeis.edu> <20021030142457.A30528@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <15807.23103.607937.532250@emerger.yogotech.com>
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:04:15PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > 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. > Plus, the person who was pushing the effort was a big PHP fan, so there > was little liklihood Java would have been chosen. I'm actually a pretty big fan of PHP for web based stuff myself :). It has several problems, but I find it very good for what it was designed to do. -- 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
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