"Marvin McNett II (GTA)" wrote:
> 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.
I dont know about Netscape, but the JDK on Linux does not have a built-in JIT
compiler. However, you can get one: TYA, and it works quite well (although
there is a small problem with Swing 1.1 apps in the current version). Try
installing TYA and you should find that the difference between Windows &
Linux is much smaller.
ftp://gonzalez.cyberus.ca/pub/Linux/java/
regards
[ bryce ]
