jdk 1.3.0 / sparc

2001-06-13 Thread Marcus Crafter

Hi All,

Hope all is well.

We've just noticed that the Blackdown JDK 1.3.0 for sparc is available
and have installed it on our E250 system.

Great work, but I wanted to ask what performance expectations we
should have ? Our tests have shown that the Blackdown sparc JDK 1.2.2
is faster than the JDK 1.3.0 ? Could this be right ?

A compile of our Java application using JDK 1.2.2 takes about 1
minute, with the JDK 1.3.0 it takes about 4 minutes. :-(

Is this expected ? Any ideas about how to improve this ?

Cheers,

Marcus

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Re: Build System

2001-06-15 Thread Marcus Crafter

On 14 Jun 2001, Jesse wrote:

> I've been handed the responsibility of designing a new automatic build
> process. Currently we use manually edited Makefiles for all or our C,
> C++ & java code. We will be scrapping almost all of the C & C++, so that
> it will be 90% java. I would like to make it easy on the other
> developers, so that changes can be easily updated. 
> 
> Any ideas on the best tools for this. I would like to have dependencies
> built in so that incremental builds only recompile the code that has
> changed. I will use Imake for the C & C++ so that is is portable (Win32,
> Linux & Solaris) but I don't need to portability for the java stuff.

Take a look at ANT from the Apache Java Project. We're using it with
great success here. I highly recommend it.

http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html

Cheers,

    Marcus

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Re: jdk 1.3.0 / sparc

2001-06-23 Thread Marcus Crafter

Hi Johan,

Thanks for your quick response.

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Johan Vos wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Marcus Crafter wrote:
> 
> > Great work, but I wanted to ask what performance expectations we
> > should have ? Our tests have shown that the Blackdown sparc JDK 1.2.2
> > is faster than the JDK 1.3.0 ? Could this be right ?
> >
> > A compile of our Java application using JDK 1.2.2 takes about 1
> > minute, with the JDK 1.3.0 it takes about 4 minutes. :-(
> >
> > Is this expected ? Any ideas about how to improve this ?
> 
> Yes, performance can be increased since:
> 1) there is currently no hotspot in sparc jdk 1.3.0
> 2) some parts were compiled without optimization in order to bypass a
> compiler problem.

I see. Thanks for the information.

> The intention was to go to 1.4 immediately, and to skip improvements on
> 1.3.0 or 1.3.1. Unless people really require it...

*nod*. I can understand the move to 1.4.

wrt your last question, I have to ask first - is there a proposed
timeline for the 1.4 releases at all ? How soon will it be before we
get our hands on a (beta?) version ?

How much effort do you think it would it take to get 1.3.0/1 up to
speed ?

    Cheers,

Marcus

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Re: Will there be any further development of Java2 on Sparc/Linux?

2001-07-17 Thread Marcus Crafter

On 11 Jul 2001, Juergen Kreileder wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Ted Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I've sent this question to the main list multiple times, with no
> > response.  What I'm wondering is whether or not the J2SDK and
> > J2EESDK are still under development for Sparc/Linux.  The release(s)
> > for this architecture seem to have stopped moving forward after the
> > RC4 release of J2SDK1.2.2, and that was a while back.
> 
> The latest release for Sparc is 1.3.0-FCS.  1.3.1 should be available
> in couple of days.  We're also working on HotSpot for Linux/Sparc.

It's really great to hear this, especially the support for hotspot.
We're really looking forward to using it.

Thanks to the team for the ongoing effort to support sparc linux as a
java platform.

    Cheers,

Marcus

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