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.

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