On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Leo Cyr wrote:
> > Interesting article comparing Java VMs at
> > http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-1998/jw-08-volanomark.html
> > The results here are oriented towards testing lots and lots of
> > connections. Suprisingly, Linux does quite poorly with both the JDK
> > and TowerJ. The article suggests that this might not just be a slow
> > Java, but rather problems with Linux.
> Linux's results in these tests disturb me. I'd like to hear come
> commentary from those who know the VM and Linux internals!
The first thing to note about those tests is that most of the other JVMs
have JIT compilers. The Linux JDK doesn't by default, but you can plug
TYA in and use it, which should give a significant performance increase,
albeit not sufficient to catch up. An optimizing JIT might help even
more.
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Matthew Hunter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (Amiga/BeOS/Linux)
