Re: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

2003-07-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
hi Mark, --- Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: benchmarks were mentioned earlier on shudo.net. If someone has more suggestions please let me know. One word: Ashes ( http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/ashes/ ). Big, free java benchmarking suite, that hardly gets used. To run it with kaffe, check

Why gcj? WAS: Re: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

2003-07-08 Thread Christopher Granade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Koch wrote: | I currently search some performance comparisons for a german company | which thinks about switching to gcj. | | | Michael I'm new to the list, so excuse me if this is naive, but I don't quite understand the idea of gcj. It seems

Re: Why gcj? WAS: Re: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

2003-07-08 Thread Michael Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 8. Juli 2003 08:43 schrieben Sie: Michael Koch wrote: | I currently search some performance comparisons for a german | company which thinks about switching to gcj. | | | Michael I'm new to the list, so excuse me if this is naive,

Re: Why gcj? WAS: Re: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

2003-07-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Christopher Granade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Koch wrote: | I currently search some performance comparisons for a german company | which thinks about switching to gcj. | | | Michael I'm new to the list, so excuse me if this is

RE: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

2003-07-08 Thread Jeroen Frijters
Mark Wielaard wrote: [benchmark results] Something to note: At least for IKVM (and I suspect for others as well), the floating point benchmarks are probably inflated since I don't think it implements FP correctly (i.e. it uses x86 FP and not the JVM model). Regards, Jeroen

Re: Why gcj? WAS: Re: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

2003-07-08 Thread Michael Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | Christopher: Please use a valid From: address next time. Eh? Was [EMAIL PROTECTED] not given as the From address? Or do you mean that I accidently send to you instead of the list, due to the Reply-To header being missing. I see that mailman is

Re: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

2003-07-08 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:00, Michael Koch wrote: Let me know if you have other benchmark/speed test stories. It would be nice if you could put this onto a webpage for reference. I currently search some performance comparisons for a german company which thinks about switching to gcj.

Re: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

2003-07-08 Thread David P Grove
The resulting JikesRVM binary and image keep seg faulting however on my machine The most likely explanation for this is that your glibc is not using the GS register for pthread local state. You can kludge around this by building Jikes RVM with RVM_FOR_SINGLE_VIRTUAL_PROCESSOR=1. However, the

Re: Meeting at LinuxTag?

2003-07-08 Thread Andy Walter
Hi, On Sunday 29 June 2003 19:38, Mark Wielaard wrote: I will be going to The Libre Software Meeting (http://www.libresoftwaremeeting.org/) on Friday July 11th and be on LinuxTag on Saterday and Sunday. I am meeting Dalibor Topic (of kaffe fame) who will also be on both events. I can be on

Re: Meeting at LinuxTag?

2003-07-08 Thread Sascha Brawer
Andy Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:09:09 +0200: I can be on LinuxTag on Saterday or Sunday, too. I would be very interested in meeting with you guys. Should we fix a certain meeting point? Saturday, 16:00, booth E40 I'm scheduled to stand at the booth of FSF Europe,

Re: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

2003-07-08 Thread shudo
Something to note: At least for IKVM (and I suspect for others as well), the floating point benchmarks are probably inflated since I don't think it implements FP correctly (i.e. it uses x86 FP and not the JVM model). The Java 2 JVM model allows double-precision arithmetic in x86 FP semantics

Re: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

2003-07-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Kazayuki, --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something to note: At least for IKVM (and I suspect for others as well), the floating point benchmarks are probably inflated since I don't think it implements FP correctly (i.e. it uses x86 FP and not the JVM model). The Java 2 JVM model allows

Re: Meeting at LinuxTag?

2003-07-08 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 16:28, Andy Walter wrote: In case you would prefer meeting earlier or later that day, this would be fine for me, as well. Mark and Dalibor, do you have any time constraints for saturday? Saturday 16:00 at the FSF Europe boot will be fine. But anywhere/anytime on

Re: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

2003-07-08 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 12:38, David P Grove wrote: The most likely explanation for this is that your glibc is not using the GS register for pthread local state. You can kludge around this by building Jikes RVM with RVM_FOR_SINGLE_VIRTUAL_PROCESSOR=1. Thanks. That was probably it since I

Re: Meeting at LinuxTag?

2003-07-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Andy Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sascha, In case you would prefer meeting earlier or later that day, this would be fine for me, as well. Mark and Dalibor, do you have any time constraints for saturday? Is there anybody else of the Classpath project who plans to come to

Re: Why gcj? WAS: Re: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

2003-07-08 Thread Jeff Sturm
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Dalibor Topic wrote: bytecode is portable, but native objects are fast. So ideally, you'd use bytecode for distribution, and use native compilation for local deployment. Compiling from source is really the ideal situation, but yes, bytecode-object works. Also gcj-compiled