On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Richard Jones wrote:
> Mohammed Lokhandwala wrote:
> >
> > I am looking for a good JVM for Linux,
> > any help ?
>
> The Sun JVM, ported at http://www.blackdown.org
> is a good JVM, although not as fast as one might
> like. If you combine it with IBM's Jikes
> compiler, you'll get an excellent and robust
> Java development environment, if you're not too
> worried about speed.
>
> There are some alternatives: Kaffe
> (http://www.transvirtual.org/). This may be
> just my isolated experience, but I can't get
> Kaffe to run any non-trivial Java programs
> at all.
I'm trying to trace a bug in the PostgreSQL JDBC driver which I maintain,
as it seems to have problems running under Kaffe (seems that the
networking code is broken). However, I've not had much experience with
Kaffe.
> When Java 2 (a.k.a. JDK 1.2) appears on the
> scene for Linux, it may contain a JIT. Don't
> ask on the list about when Java 2 will appear,
> because no one knows and everyone is bored of
> reading about it.
All I will say on this subject, is I hope the speed improvement is as
large as I've observed on the Win32 Java 2 VM. I had code running on 1.1.6
at an acceptible speed, and now on 2.0 that same code is running atleast
10x faster (drawing astronomical maps on screen).
Peter
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