>It is only jdk1.1.6 though. But I will take it.
Yeehaw! If you don't like hunting, it's at
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/linuxjvm
Native threads, requires glibc 2.1 and kernel 2.2. Says Redhat 6.0 is
good to go, and it seems to be. It requires Motif, but they have
helpful instructions about how to install LessTif 0.88.1.
I did a few quick tests against the Blackdown JDK 1.1.7_v3 (no JIT).
The main story is that it works! I'm quite impressed. I did a bit of
speed comparison, nothing comprehensive, I'd be interested in real
benchmarks.
A fancy animated graphics program I wrote does great under the IBM
JDK, running smoothly at a framerate and size well beyond where it'll
choke running under Blackdown.
My big distributed application environment, Hive, seems to run fine
with it. I can't actually compile it (JDK 1.1.6 rmic has a bug), but
it'll run the classes just great. Hive makes use of lots of
concurrently running threads, graphics, object allocation, and RMI.
It runs well under the IBM JDK and seems quite responsive.
My only complaints so far.. a bit of font damage in java.awt.Choice.
And rmic, the compiler, seems to run slower under the IBM JDK. But
maybe that's a different version of rmic itself, or maybe just JIT
overhead for a funny case.
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