On Dec 1, 2007 4:31 PM, David MacIver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 1, 2007 4:17 PM, Richard Warburton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On a 64-bit machine running linux there's no difference between the > > > client and server times. I don't know whether this is because the > > > 64-bit client and server VM optimisations aren't as different as they > > > are in 32-bit mode or whether there's some advantage to 64-bit here > > > (if there is, gcc isn't taking advantage of it, see below). > > > > I believe that the 64bit SUN JVM defaults to server mode. The > > expectation is that 64bit things would be used on a server. > > I tried it with the -client flag as well. So it may not be a case of > default so much as "Always runs in server mode". > > It would definitely explain some of the problems I've seen with Swing > on 64-bit VMs. >
And if I'd spent five minutes googling I would have discovered that this is indeed the case. Doh. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
