Re: Questions for the Java Open Source "Debate" at JavaOne

2004-06-29 Thread David Brownell
Charles Forsythe wrote: Quoting Diego Pons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Think about it, perhaps we would have already JVM's on silicon on the cheap instead of needing these gigaherz machines to run java properly. JVMs on silicon? Like, maybe, the Ajile AJ-100? I'd be interested in comments on the ARM-926

Re: java, glibc & smallest possible footprint ???

2002-02-03 Thread David Brownell
> > gcj is the gcc java compiler. > > I want to investigate this -- do you have any links? I really need to > know how big that new library is. http://gcc.gnu.org/java ... though it's not yet had work done to optimize it for a particularly small footprint. -

Re: who calls a method

2001-10-12 Thread David Brownell
> Yep... this is good for dumping info to be read by humans. If you want a > data structure usable from software, you'll need to implement a profiler > through the JVMPI interface. OR maybe use those funky new JDK 1.4 APIs I noticed in the vicinity of the new Exeption.getCause() calls and stack b

Re: Unix JNI library?

2001-10-06 Thread David Brownell
> > Does anyone have a JNI library for accessing & modifying files > > on a Unix FS? Specifically Linux? I'd like to be able to > > query & modify group & owner permissions. Closest I've seen (haven't looked lately at exact contents): http://www.xenonsoft.demon.co.uk/products/javaunix/ ---

Fw: [ANNOUNCE] Gcc 3.0 released. Features Java language support.

2001-06-20 Thread David Brownell
You may have seen this already; if so, apologies. I think this is great news for Java/Linux users! Linux is one of the reference platforms for GCC Java support; see the website for details about which CPUs behave right today. - Dave - Original Message - From: "Alexandre Petit-Bianco"

Re: zip utility

2001-06-13 Thread David Brownell
Try using "jar". Jarfiles are zipfiles with a strange extension and an optional layout convention. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: Re: Java/Linux at JavaOne

2001-06-03 Thread David Brownell
> > I may have missed this ... will this be covering GCJ? > > > > Compiled Java has some nice advantages. Including > > more natural and efficient integration with native code, > > as well as faster startup and the ability to do some > > aggressive ahead-of-time optimizations, and working > > be

Re: Fwd: Re: Java/Linux at JavaOne

2001-05-31 Thread David Brownell
I may have missed this ... will this be covering GCJ? Compiled Java has some nice advantages. Including more natural and efficient integration with native code, as well as faster startup and the ability to do some aggressive ahead-of-time optimizations, and working better with standard OS tools

Re: jni link error

2001-05-29 Thread David Brownell
> I'm not sure, but I don't think the JVM uses ld to load its stuff. If the JVM uses anything other than the standard dlsym() I think it'd really be asking for trouble ... why would it want to do that, anyway? -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: InetAddress.getLocalHost() problems with Debian Linux

2001-04-19 Thread David Brownell
> > So my question is: is it wrong for the localhost entry in /etc/hosts to > > contain the machine name? [...] > > Yes, it's wrong, but it is commonly done on windows and on unix machines > in the initial installation steps. It should not be left that way > unless the machine has no network in

Re: DDD

2001-03-31 Thread David Brownell
> http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ Heh ... the real fun begins when the last name-mangling issues get resolved, and folk start using DDD with GCJ compiled code! :) I don't know if it'll work with interpreted code though. - Dave ---

Re: GCJ on RedHat 6.x

2001-03-22 Thread David Brownell
The versions of GCJ worth trying are the one RedHat put onto the RedHat 7.0 distribution ("GCJ 2.96rh"), and for the truly bleeding edge user, recent GCC 3.0 snapshots. The 2.95 versions are significantly out of date, and not at all recommended. On the other hand, the 3.0 versions are restabiliz

Re: JTable mouse click

2001-02-21 Thread David Brownell
> BTW. This is a blackdown mailing list. Hosted by Blackdown ... but isn't the topic "Java on Linux"? Not quite the same as "Blackdown Java on Linux", given stuff like GCC 3.0 ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Has the ARM JDK1.3 port been completed yet?

2001-02-12 Thread David Brownell
It's not JDK ... but I think I remember seeing reports that GCJ may be working on ARM. Unless you need Swing, check it out at http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ ... if it's not running on ARM, a couple good engineers should be able to make a solid dent in that problem! Evidently the "libffi" support (in by

Re: Tya vs. shuJIT

2001-01-30 Thread David Brownell
> From: "Kazuyuki Shudo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 12:23 AM > > David Brownell wrote: > > > It'd be interesting to see a current version of GCJ in those > > comparisons. GCJ 2.95.2 is listed in the shudo.net page, >

Re: Tya vs. shuJIT

2001-01-29 Thread David Brownell
It'd be interesting to see a current version of GCJ in those comparisons. GCJ 2.95.2 is listed in the shudo.net page, but that's _extremely_ old ... I'd suggest using the 2.96 that is distributed with RedHat 7.0, as the most current "stable" version available. (GCC 3.0 will have a more up-to-dat

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-18 Thread David Brownell
http://gcc.gnu.org/ ... look at the Java support if you want startup times that are as good as native code. (And don't need Swing... GTK integration is in the works though.) GCC 3.0 includes a Java compiler, GCJ. It's in code slush now, soon to branch; "hope to release by the end of Q1 2001".

Re: What are the disadvantages of using jikes instead of javac?

2000-12-19 Thread David Brownell
> I guess I didn't explain the problem very well (and glancing at the > gcj web site didn't show me the answer). For one thing, I'm assuming > that gcj will do inlining. I think right now it doesn't do much of that. Though I've known folk who look at providing member access without a function c

Re: What are the disadvantages of using jikes instead of javac?

2000-12-19 Thread David Brownell
> = From: Cliff Draper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > = Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 10:35 AM > > = From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > = Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:52:46 -0800 > > My own experience with GCJ is positive. For many things it's >

Re: What are the disadvantages of using jikes instead of javac?

2000-12-18 Thread David Brownell
> > > I started to use jikes and like it very much. So I started to wonder, > > > what are the disadvantages to use jikes instead of javac (SUN or > > > Blackdown)? What not to use only jikes? > > > > Besides the fact that it generates a binary that runs on only one > > platform? > > I think you

Re: Request: No more generic Java questions

2000-12-09 Thread David Brownell
I agree with Matt, on the purely selfish reasons. There are lots of places to ask generic questions, and the main ones I know of that Linux-specific questions get dealt with are this one (focussed on Sun's version of Java) and the java-discuss list hosted for GCJ/GCC users/developers/... (clearly

Re: java developer feedback

2000-11-21 Thread David Brownell
- Original Message - From: "noisebrain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 13 November, 2000 6:32 PM Subject: Re: java developer feedback > There's been progress on this recently with caldera/turbolinux/etc., > but RedHat, by far the biggest linux distrib, does not include > anything ot

Re: To optimize or not

2000-11-02 Thread David Brownell
I think the documentation for Sun's "javac" says that "-O" is a NOP. In theory (and in practice with some other compilers :-) there's a fair degree of scope for optimizing intermediate code. Not just dead code elimination, but reorganizing basic blocks, eliminating temporaries, and so on. (The

Re: Vote of 'No Confidence' in SUNs 'guidance' for Java.

2000-10-30 Thread David Brownell
I'd actually be content to see more developers committing to making sure their software runs on Free versions of Java. Start with Kaffe ... and then give GCJ a real push! (All I'll say about JCP 2.0 just now is that I really don't see how it can support truly Open processes, given all the NDAs an

Re: looking for a kernel mailing list

2000-10-27 Thread David Brownell
> I have a question that would be appropriate for a Linux Kernel list. > Does anyone know of a good one? LKML, or the specialized ones (e.g. for USB, networking, etc). The modules bit doesn't make sense to me; are you referring to the kernel driver plus the userspace JNI glue to call it? Or is t

Re: Sun's Java as OSS?

2000-10-26 Thread David Brownell
> Does Kaffe/GJC/Classpath have a website? If so,what's the url? http://sources.redhat.com/java ... for GCJ http://www.kaffe.org/ ... for Kaffe http://www.fsf.org/software/classpath/classpath.html ... for classpath http://www.fsf.org/software/java/java.html ... also relevant Note that libgcj (

Re: Sun's Java as OSS?

2000-10-26 Thread David Brownell
> I am not sure I even want SUNs help in the Free Software/Java community. They > have screwed a lot of thigns up. I would just rather see Kaffe/GJC/Classpath go > their logical directions and not have SUN involved. If they want to make Java > Free Software then good but I don't think the commun

Java USB (for Linux)

2000-10-21 Thread David Brownell
mplementation.) What's solid is control and bulk communications; periodic transfers aren't available at this time, though Linux should support some "interrupt" style transfers. Enough of the announcemen