[Biojava-l] Re: Biojava-l digest, Vol 1 #263 - 7 msgs

2001-03-05 Thread Michael L. Heuer
Thomas Down wrote: > Right now, the one place ant is behind build.Builder is that > it doesn't do the nice grouping of packages in the javadoc output. > I'll get that fixed in the next day or two. use the group tag: michael __

Re: [Biojava-l] Compiling with Jikes

2001-03-05 Thread Bradley A. Smith
> If you have the time, maybe you could post your results and test program > on a Web page or something? This would be something a lot of people would > be interested in, I think. The program is not a test program, but a real program called EPMR, which refines protein crystal structures by molec

Re: [Biojava-l] Compiling with Jikes

2001-03-05 Thread Ann Loraine
> > I don't have any comprehensive numbers; however, I have tested a primarily > numeric program on both Linux and Windows, and found that the best > combination on both platforms was jikes for compilation, and the IBM JRE 1.3 > for runtime. I admit this result may hold for only this one program;

Re: [Biojava-l] Build systems

2001-03-05 Thread Keith James
> "Thomas" == Thomas Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Thomas> Have you actually tried it and found that you had to wait Thomas> 10 minutes? Ant compares it's working copy of the source Thomas> tree against the main copy, and only rebuilds things that Thomas> have chang

Re: [Biojava-l] Build systems

2001-03-05 Thread Thomas Down
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:11:41PM +, Keith James wrote: > > I've used both, but couldn't figure out how to get ant to do the > equivalent of > > java build/Builder package foo You can't. At least, I don't think so. If this turns out to be really important, I guess we could auto-generate a

Re: [Biojava-l] Build systems

2001-03-05 Thread Keith James
> "Thomas" == Thomas Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Thomas> Right now, the one place ant is behind build.Builder is Thomas> that it doesn't do the nice grouping of packages in the Thomas> javadoc output. I'll get that fixed in the next day or Thomas> two. I've used

[Biojava-l] Build systems

2001-03-05 Thread Thomas Down
We've been running for the last couple of months with two alternative build systems: - build.Builder -- a biojava-specific, and rather monolithic, hack. Simple, though, and avoids having an outside dependancy. - ant -- nice and fast and configura

Re: [Biojava-l] Compiling with Jikes

2001-03-05 Thread Bradley A. Smith
> > Granted jdk 1.3 is better than jdk 1.2; however, I still find that jikes is > > about 1.5 times faster than jdk 1.3. In addition, the bytecode produced by > > jikes runs faster. > > That's interesting. Do you have any numbers for this? And does > it just apply to interpreters and naive JITs,

Re: [Biojava-l] Compiling with Jikes

2001-03-05 Thread Thomas Down
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:58:50AM -0800, Bradley A. Smith wrote: > > Incidentally, you might like to look at the javac in jdk1.3 -- > > it's a complete rewrite of the old one, and is significantly > > faster (and fixes a fair number of bugs). > > Granted jdk 1.3 is better than jdk 1.2; however,

Re: [Biojava-l] Compiling with Jikes

2001-03-05 Thread Bradley A. Smith
> Incidentally, you might like to look at the javac in jdk1.3 -- > it's a complete rewrite of the old one, and is significantly > faster (and fixes a fair number of bugs). Granted jdk 1.3 is better than jdk 1.2; however, I still find that jikes is about 1.5 times faster than jdk 1.3. In addition,