Leo Cyr writes:
> > Interesting article comparing Java VMs at
> > http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-1998/jw-08-volanomark.html
> Linux's results in these tests disturb me. I'd like to hear come
> commentary from those who know the VM and Linux internals!
These results do not disturb me nearly as much (i.e. not
at all :) as the broken Invocation API does,
due to the lack of native thread support.
Linux performance be bad, Linux could still be a good development
platform. But for my purposes, the JDK is useless. I suspect
that any development of embedded Java (JVM used by legacy
C/C++ app) or "impure" Java (native legacy code used) is not
much fun on Linux. It sure as hell did not work out for me.
Not only can I not deploy, I can't even develop with JDK. What
kept me going is Japhar, but Japhar has quite a bit of catching
up to do.
Of course, the ones to blame are not the Linux JDK porting teams,
but the suits at SMI. I suggest that everybody disturbed about
Java on Linux should spend some time and effort testing Japhar.
See www.hungry.com.
b.
