On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:50:40 -0600, Scot E. Wilcoxon wrote:
>The FAQ has vague references to JDK resource needs.
>
>Anyone have an estimate of the minimum configuration
>needed for the Linux JRE? That is, what's the smallest
>system which can run Linux Java programs, not the JDK?
>(I happen to be wondering about 486 12M RAM/20M disk
>at the moment)
Well, I built the complete JDK and JRE distributions for
the libc5 on a rather small system. A 486DX4/100 laptop
with 24megs of RAM. Yes, that includes compiling all of the
JAVA class files (including the compiler itself) And yes,
this took much longer than on a larger system, mainly because
of swapping while doing one of the big compiles of character
translation classes.
However, most Java programs run reasonably on that system
(as in, do not swap much or at all) but just like any other
program (C/C++/perl/etc) it is slower by the factor that
the machine is slower. (A 486DX4/100 is much slower that
a P-II/266 no matter what you do :-)
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
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