Before I start, let me say that competition is good :)
It is strange though that SUN/Inprise obviously has put a gag on
employees and kept all information on the port secret. Well, I guess
they have an answer to that (JBuilder3 running on Linux for instance,
with a commercially supported JDK/JRE ?)
As for the speed-issue for my use of JDK1.2: Swing, and a lot of
it. With the SUN/Inprise 1.2.2-port, the speed increased alot from
what I've experienced with 1.2.2-pre2, but the Blackdown 1.2.2 RC3
with nativethreads runs past these guys without any doubt. Menus
poping up like a menu and not like a curtain being pulled down on my
PII-400/128MB :)
As for stability I have no complaints at all to neither the
SUN/Inprise-port nor the Blackdown-port (Ehem, I've tested both for
respectivly 1 and 4 days :), but it isn't crashproned like the pre2
was.
Well, Sun has realized that Linux finally will crush those _slow_ and
_lazy_ S(l)o(w)laris-boxes both on speed and not the least cost, so
this means a lot of commitment to Linux from now on (the year 1999
seems like the year Linux really kicks off !?) and SUN really won't be
left out of the game there.
Thanks anyway to the effort the Blackdown-team has done, great job
guys. What about a cooperative effort with SUN/Inprise to release the
nativethreads-implementation and incorporate it with the
SUN/Inprise-port ?
The next race would be for 1.3 ? And at least: JPDA, I'm looking
forward to it.
That's at least my 0.50 NKr :)
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