I do believe the synchronization improvements are already shipping with JDK1.2beta4,
which is available for Solaris and Win32. At any rate, synchronization suddenly got
an order of magnitude faster from v1.1.6 to v1.2beta4.
-dan
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Paul Reavis wrote:
> Steve Byrne wrote:
> >
> > Uncle George writes:
> > > interesting, considering that 1.2 isn't out yet. U got a mole in the sun
> > > organization?
> >
> > I used to work there until December of 97. I kept ensuring that 1.2 compiling
> > cleanly with gcc, so the port to Linux wouldn't be too bad. Being on the
> > inside, you get presentations from time to time about things related to the VM,
> > and one of them talked about some of the improvements in 1.2. I think, though,
> > the new synchronization mechanism is public knowledge, but I'm not certain.
>
> I've heard about it from various quarters; it's in the big bag of
> HotSpot/1.2 improvements, and there are several white papers and
> articles scattered around about those. Uncle George, you might dig
> around on developer.javasoft.com and javaworld if you want more info. Or
> just keysearch on +java +hotspot and see what crawls up.
>
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>
> Paul Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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