Re: Q: How do you keep your sources in synch?

2004-04-12 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Patrik, On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 13:24, Patrik Reali wrote: I'd like to add this topic to the FAQ, thus I'm looking for hard evidence on this topic. Thanks for asking this question. It is good to know how precisely the different projects are using GNU Classpath to create more fully featured

Re: The Mauve unicode testcase and VM performance

2004-04-12 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 18:44, Stephen Crawley wrote: The testcase now runs clean for JDK 1.4.2 as well as Kissme/Classpath from CVS. Thanks a lot for that! The interesting thing is that the test run 200 times faster with JDK 1.4.2 than with Kissme. Yes TWO HUNDRED TIMES! [...]

Re: The Mauve unicode testcase and VM performance

2004-04-12 Thread David P Grove
Development Jikes RVM can take a while to build, but does buy some performance. Probably not worth it for classpath development or mauve tests, but if you want to run some apps it can pay off. I have prototype and development 2.3.2 images sitting around on my machine, so just for fun.

Re: The Mauve unicode testcase and VM performance

2004-04-12 Thread Archie Cobbs
Mark Wielaard wrote: There are quite some differences between the free runtime environments. Here are some results from JC, although this is on a much faster machine (Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz): $ time echo gnu.testlet.java.lang.Character.unicode | jc gnu.testlet.SimpleTestHarness

Re: The Mauve unicode testcase and VM performance

2004-04-12 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 15:53, Mark Wielaard wrote: There are quite some differences between the free runtime environments. (Total) running time goes from 1.2 seconds (native gcj) to 1.5 minutes (kissme). This is on a AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.4 Ghz). Note the interesting differences between

Jikes RVM 2.3.2 is now available

2004-04-12 Thread David P Grove
Jikes RVM 2.3.2 is now available from the developerworks web site (http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikesrvm/). The release notes are appended below. Of particular note is that of version 2.3.2 it is possible to build Jikes RVM entirely with free software tools. *Highlights of this

Re: The Mauve unicode testcase and VM performance

2004-04-12 Thread Stuart Ballard
Mark Wielaard wrote: and overhead. Hope I have time next week to update it with at least rvm development results and maybe IKVM ahead of time results (Jeroen, any hints on how to do that in this case?) I don't know whether you have a zip/jar or individual classfiles but assuming it's a single jar

JC release 1.1

2004-04-12 Thread Archie Cobbs
FYI, JC version 1.1 is available. Changes from version 1.0.1 include: - New heap layout and GC algorithm: - Added support for object finalization. - Added support for soft, weak, and phantom references. - Improvements in tracing algorithm and GC statistics. - Fat locks are now

Re: access modifier for FileDescriptor.setNativeFd(long)

2004-04-12 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 07:04, Christian Grothoff wrote: I'm currently porting parts of GNU classpath to OVM (http://www.ovmj.org). In the process I hit a problem with the access modifier of FileDescriptor.setNativeFd(long). In order to avoid having to set that field using reflection,

SableVM 1.1.3 Released

2004-04-12 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Download http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5523package_id=5567release_id=230647 Changes === - Cleaned up build process so that ./configure ; make ; make install works out of the box for both sablevm-classpath (as it does for sablevm). Notes = To build