>>>>> Cliff Kotnik writes:
Cliff> I decided to test the performance of my home machine with
Cliff> the CaffineMark benchmark. The results for SUN's Win32
Cliff> JDK vs. the Linux JDK are so disappointing, I wonder if I've
Cliff> made some goof in running the tests. Any help would be
Cliff> appreciated.
Your test isn't really fair.
Cliff> Hardware: Del XPS R400 PII 400 MHz 128M
Cliff> Software:
Cliff> Config 1 - Win98, SUN Win32 JDK 1.1.7B
Cliff> Config 2 - Win98, SUN Win32 JDK1.2
The Windows JDK uses the Symantec JIT compiler by default.
Cliff> Config 3 - Redhat Linux 5.2, Blackdown Java-Linux JDK 1.1.7 v1a
The Linux JDK 1.1 comes with no JIT compiler but there are separately
available JIT compilers (shujit and tya).
Juergen
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