On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 05:29:19 +0000, Dan Kegel wrote:
>Dan Kegel wrote:
>>
>> Check out
>> http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/980914analysis.htm
>>
>> It shows OS/2's latest JVM to be *three times* faster than
>> any other. (They haven't tried Blackdown's v4a yet; they only
>> used v2.)
>
>I should mention - the test was run on dual-processor machines
>(except for Linux, which they couldn't get running in SMP mode).
>So perhaps OS/2's JVM is only 1.5x times faster on a single
>processor, and has much better native threading than the others.
Well, the Windows NT test is also done on the same dual-processor
system and it too shows to be 1/3 as fast as the OS/2 version.
The thing is the OS/2 has a *very good* threading model. It works
very well. And OS/2 applications and tools generally make use
of this and depend on this since it is almost impossible to write
a reasonable GUI application without at least 2 threads due to the
way the input queue works. Having over 100 active threads in the
system is not uncommon. (The good threading model is also why OS/2
tends to be a very good file server in larger networks - it handles
user connections rather well...)
I hope they get a chance to run the V4 port of the JDK since the socket
fix has a *major* impact on any programs that tend to wait on a socket.
(Which generally is done a lot in client/server code)
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- http://www.nextbus.com
My place on the web ---> http://www.users.fast.net/~michael_sinz
