I recently ran the Java benchmark at:
http://math.nist.gov/scimark/
on my 300MHz PII Linux machine with Netscape 4.5. To my astonishment, the
results were terrible! Since I can dual boot, I started up Windows 95 (a
rare occurance) and ran the benchmark again (and again with Netscape 4.5).
I found that the score was about 20 times higher (higher is better) using
Windows 95! So, I concluded that Netscape for Linux must not have a
just-in-time (JIT) compiler, whereas Netscape for Windows does. To verify
this, I, once again, ran the test in Linux--this time using JDK 1.1.6. I
I found that the Windows 95 score was still about 8 times higher. So, I'm
wondering, "Is there a problem with Java on Linux?". Am I doing something
wrong? I need to use Java for an upcoming project, but certainly do not
want to use Micro$oft.
Thank you,
Marvin McNett II
