On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Oliver Fels wrote:
> > > Both TYA and the ShuJIT are free JIT's which work with Linux and JDK 1.1 ...
> > > I am assuming that porting them to work with JDK 1.2 will not be (too)
> > > difficult.
> >
> > I know nothing, but I've heard that the interface for JITs has changed a
> > lot between 1.1 and 1.2.
>
> In the long term, we should start thinking about porting the HotSpot
> compiler from Sun to the Linux side.
> It is still in early beta stage but the sooner we start thinking about
> it, the better it is.
> It is only half as good as promised there is no need for porting 1.1
> JITs to 1.2.
>
> BTW I will revise the above statement if someone can write a free
> JIT with similar features and performance, but I doubt it.
>
> Oliver
Sorry but that whole "hot spot" thing looks like vapor ware. Besides
even if Sun is able to get "something" out the door they have already
stated that it will be given to "paying customers only". Instead of
waiting and hoping that Sun will do us a favor why not help out with
the free JIT projects like TYA? I have already found a bug in TYA
and I plan on making a small test case so that I can track down
the problem or send it to the TYA folks. If you help out with the
free Java projects then free Java will get better than
"paying customers only" Java that Sun wants you to buy into.
Mo DeJong
dejong at cs.umn.edu
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