On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 19:29, John Neffenger wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> > Also, 2.5.x Linux has changes to their 1:1 model that greatly increases
> > scalability for dealing with a large number of threads.
> 
> I was under the impression that Java application developers will have to 
> wait for the Java virtual machines to take advantage of those threading 
> changes before we see any benefits.  I read that IBM needs to make 
> changes in their Java VM on Linux to support it, for example.  Is that 
> correct?

That is my understanding right now. The latest JVM's from Sun and IBM
apparently take steps to disable NPTL. I'm not if anyone working on the
blackdown project is planning to get support for NPTL in ahead of Sun or
IBM.

--Chris


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