>>>>> Paolo Ciccone writes:
Paolo> We actually are. We didn't say that this is a clean port,
Paolo> in fact we are giving credit to Blackdown for the
Paolo> port. This has been done with the press at the Java Expo in
Paolo> New York and I personally posted here and on /. about our
Paolo> use of the early patches from Blackdown. The story is
Paolo> simple, we took the patches for 1.2.1 and started working
Paolo> on 1.2.2. From that early effort, fundamental to start the
Early effort... Come on.
Getting the VM running is the major part of the port. The step from
1.2 to 1.2.2 is so small that it nearly doesn't effect the port at
all.
Paolo> port, we actually added a lot of other stuff. The AWT/Motif
Paolo> for example has been completely replaced and a lot of other
Paolo> fixes have been added. This is truly a collective
Then some of my fixes must have made their way into the mainstream
sources.
Paolo> achievement, starting froim the early effort of Blackdown
Paolo> and then accelerated by Sun and Inprise and brought to a
Paolo> level of stability and performance that we feel is
Paolo> acceptable before the release of 1.3/Hotspot.
>From what I see the speed difference mainly comes from using a
different JIT compiler.
Juergen
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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Porting Team
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
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