sparc RedHat Linux, Native Threads and HotSpot

2000-04-13 Thread Avi Cherry
I'm running RedHat Linux 6.0, but with an upgraded kernel (2.2.14) and a new glibc (2.1.3), which is what comes with RedHat 6.2. In case it matters, I've also tried the glibc that comes with RedHat 6.1. I'm running JDK 1.2.2 RC4, the latest version available. Running with green threads and no J

Re: Linux native threads

1998-06-30 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
Stephen Zander writes: > In Private email with sbb, he informed me that the Sun developers > don't believe native threads gives any great advantage over green > threads in a uni-CPU environment. I could not care less about SMI's opinion in this regard. Green threads inhibit the Invocation API

Re: Linux native threads

1998-06-25 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Stephen" == Stephen Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> Karl is right. There just aren't yet any Stephen> publicly-available Sun JDKs for Linux that support native Stephen> threads. Also, I think the DEFAULT_THREADS_FLAG Stephen> environment cruft in .java_wrapper mig

Re: Linux native threads

1998-06-08 Thread Uncle George
i tried at one time to use posix-threads(pthreads) on alpha. u can match up some of the functionality, but in reality sun uses, well , sun-threads, and their enhancements. there was a small talk on the diff's, i think one of them was the ability to start/stop/pause any thread. other difficulties w

Re: Linux native threads

1998-06-07 Thread Stephen Wynne
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Seawood writes: The blackdown version is ported using Sun's source and it still contains the script options for native threads although they have not been implemented yet. Karl is right. There just aren't yet any publicly-available Sun JDKs

Re: Linux native threads

1998-06-05 Thread Christopher Seawood
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Bernd Kreimeier wrote: > > The current FAQ quotes Karl Asha: native pthreads > with Linux are far from being available for JDK. > > Is this still true? The scripts contain lines like For the blackdown version it is. I think Sergey Nikitin's version might have native thread

Linux native threads

1998-06-05 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
The current FAQ quotes Karl Asha: native pthreads with Linux are far from being available for JDK. Is this still true? The scripts contain lines like THREADS_TYPE=green_threads THREADS_TYPE=native_threads The green_threads (along with the wanker libdl for glibc) might contribute to my persis