On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 02:08:00 +0000, 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.)
>
>Perhaps the Blackdown team will be interested in getting
>a copy of the benchmark code they used; it looked easier
>to run than the Volanomark.
We will see. I have EMailed the author and asked if we could get
a copy of the test programs.
BTW - OS/2 has a very nice threading system and a rather solid
network stack and these are the real reasons the stuff ran so
much faster. Why do I know this? Well, friends at IBM tell me
that the JVM they made for OS/2 and NT are almost the exact same
code (plus/minus the technical differences between platforms)
That includes the JIT and the core JVM, both of which are very
much the same since x86 code generation is the same on either
platform.
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- http://www.nextbus.com
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