Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:53:30 -0400 From: Uncle George <gatgul@voicenet.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, nate@FreeBSD.org, java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: java for FreeBSD/alpha Message-ID: <3ADC831A.720F92CC@voicenet.com> References: <3AD882C5.EEEC722@voicenet.com> <3ADC3018.9D9F7E08@FreeBSD.org> <15068.24769.146325.318029@nomad.yogotech.com> <3ADC7EBD.A5D5FE7E@voicenet.com> <15068.25961.466201.569075@nomad.yogotech.com>
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I suppose thats like saying did compaq give u a 486 with 32mb mem, or a pentiun III/800mhz 512mb +32gig of 10k scsi III disks. so did u get a "noname" baseball field, or a "ds20" ( smp/500mhz ) type of baseball field to play upon. ( baseball players dont work do they? ) Since BSDi will no longer exist, how will u get license to distribute the binaries ? How will u get the license for the JCK tests for the jdk. Sorry to hit u with these questions when there appears to be some ( perceived ) turmoil with the porting efforts of the sun/jdk port - but how else will I know the extent of the commitment by sun/bsdi/freebsd /gat BTW the TYA jit cant/doesn't work on freebds/i386 ? Nate Williams wrote: > > So what does the ballfield look like ? > > I'm not sure I understand the question. I've got an Compaq-donated > Alpha, running the Compaq-provided Linux-JDK in emulation mode that > should be adequate enough to bootstrap a FreeBSD-native port. > > However, if history is at all a reflection os what we expect, the native > Alpha port will be the *slowest* JVM in the world w/out a JIT. The > Linux port is slower on the box than it is on my 486/66 box, so it's no > speed daemon, that's for sure. > > > BTW i've noticed that blackdown has gotten involved with BSD et al. Any > > relationships ? any support from them ? > > This is news to me. > > > BTW#2 are u (java/port) still involved with BSDi. what is their > > relationship now-a-days? > > In a couple of weeks, there will be no BSDi. It's not obvious at this > time if there will be a relationship. > > Nate > > > > > > whats going on with the alpha port of the Sun/JDK stuff ? > > > > > is there a port/effort? > > > > > > There is hardware in place to do the port, but so far no one has stepped > > > up to the plate to do it. > > > > > > Nate > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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