Re: JIT or Hotspot?

2002-03-05 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Drew Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>i think you'll find that the jre 1.3.1 from Blackdown has hotspot >>(on intel at least...) >> >>[jordan@larry jordan]$ java -version java version "1.3.1" Java(TM) 2 >>Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build >>Blackdown-1.3.1-02a-FCS)Java HotSpot(TM) Cl

Re: JIT or Hotspot?

2002-03-05 Thread Drew Lane
> > >i think you'll find that the jre 1.3.1 from Blackdown has hotspot (on intel at >least...) > >[jordan@larry jordan]$ java -version >java version "1.3.1" >Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build Blackdown-1.3.1-02a-FCS)Java >HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build Blackdown-1.3.1_02a-FCS

Re: JIT or Hotspot?

2002-03-05 Thread jordan muscott
On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:34:44 -0700 "Drew Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I understand there is no JIT or Hotspot in Blackdown, correct? > >What's the status of this exactly? Can we expect to see one soon? > >I haven't had much problem with Blackdown, but it is a bit too slow >witho

Re: JIT or Hotspot?

2002-03-05 Thread jordan muscott
On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:34:44 -0700 "Drew Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I understand there is no JIT or Hotspot in Blackdown, correct? > >What's the status of this exactly? Can we expect to see one soon? > >I haven't had much problem with Blackdown, but it is a bit too slow >witho

RE: JIT for Blackdown 1.1.8

2001-01-28 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 28-Jan-2001 Volker wrote: > does anybody know a JIT for 1.1.8??? TYA works quite well. Stefaan -- Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. -

Re: JIT/Hotspot/Interpretor Information

1999-12-09 Thread Andreas Rueckert
Hi! On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 Gerald Gutierrez wrote: >With all the recent news regarding Java/Linux (and being hit by the >idea that there really isn't any useable open source Java engine), I >became interested in the general topic of JITs, Hotspot-type engines >(what's it called .. dynamic compilatio

Re: JIT For linux??

1999-10-18 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 03:41:05AM -0600, Robert Simmons wrote: > Greetings, > > Is there a functional version of the JIT that works with the 1.2 Jdk on > linux ? I would love to install it before things get messy in my app. Ive > build most of the structure and now Im adding content like crazy a

Re: JIT For linux??

1999-10-18 Thread Timothy Reaves
Borland has released one. Robert Simmons wrote: > Greetings, > > Is there a functional version of the JIT that works with the 1.2 Jdk on > linux ? I would love to install it before things get messy in my app. Ive > build most of the structure and now Im adding content like crazy and I could > ea

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-18 Thread Nick Lawson
I have a (Java) program that does this, although I added the comments by hand. Writing a decompiler seemed like a good way to learn jvm. I didn't originally intend to decompile byte codes, by as usual I got carried away Nick Chris Abbey wrote: > Nick, what program did you use to generate t

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-18 Thread Nick Lawson
Nathan Meyers wrote: > Nick Lawson wrote: > > > > Pretty impressive optimization on symcjit, though it smells a bit like a > compiler that's been tuned to the benchmarks. Does it perform that well > on real applications? > > Nathan > I can only comment on one real application - mat

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-18 Thread Dimitris Vyzovitis
Nick Lawson wrote: > > The times for this (Pentium 166, Sun Windows 95 JDK 1.2, Blackdown 1.2pre-v2 > + glibc 2.1 + OpenLinux 2.2, > 500,000,000 iterations): > > VM: kaffeSunSunBlackdownBlackdown > JIT: symcjitnone sunwjitn

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-18 Thread Nathan Meyers
Nick Lawson wrote: > Ok, NO overhead for try..catch is an exaggeration. But only a small one > - typically there is exactly one extra bytecode instruction per try, > to branch round the catch{} clauses > > I guess the question was whether try..catch is faster or slower > than the alternatives

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-18 Thread Nick Lawson
Nathan Meyers wrote: > Nick Lawson wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure try{}catch{} catch blocks add NO overhead to code, > > unless the exception actually gets thrown. But exceptions are > > supposed to be > > exceptional, so who cares how slow it is ? > > > > Times for attached program (JDK1.2p

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-17 Thread Nathan Meyers
Nick Lawson wrote: > > I'm pretty sure try{}catch{} catch blocks add NO overhead to code, > unless the exception actually gets thrown. But exceptions are > supposed to be > exceptional, so who cares how slow it is ? > > Check out how exception handling is implemented in Java byte-code > in the J

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-16 Thread Nick Lawson
I'm pretty sure try{}catch{} catch blocks add NO overhead to code, unless the exception actually gets thrown. But exceptions are supposed to be exceptional, so who cares how slow it is ? Check out how exception handling is implemented in Java byte-code in the Java Virtual Machine Specification, 4

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-16 Thread Rachit Siamwalla
This is funny, because a while ago (quite a while), people said that this code: if (intArray == null) return intArray[3]; else return -1; was slower than this code: try{ return intArray[3]; } catch (NullPointerException e) { return -1 } precisely because the JVM

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-16 Thread Anand Palaniswamy
> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:49:47 -0500 > From: Jim Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It was my understanding that code wrapped in an exception handler > introduces more overhead to the JVM. I am sure I have seen articles on > this exact topic in Java World or Java Report.

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-16 Thread Nathan Meyers
Dimitris Vyzovitis wrote: > > SHUDO Kazuyuki wrote: > > > > Personally I prefer explicit checks. > > > > Why? > > > > I am also tempted to ask why > Is there any particular reason to add client side check for what the VM does on > its own? > I personally think that there is no need to do ex

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-16 Thread Jim Kimball
It was my understanding that code wrapped in an exception handler introduces more overhead to the JVM. I am sure I have seen articles on this exact topic in Java World or Java Report. Jim Dimitris Vyzovitis wrote: > > SHUDO Kazuyuki wrote: > > > > Personally I prefer explicit checks. > > > > W

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-16 Thread Dimitris Vyzovitis
SHUDO Kazuyuki wrote: > > Personally I prefer explicit checks. > > Why? > I am also tempted to ask why Is there any particular reason to add client side check for what the VM does on its own? I personally think that there is no need to do explicit checks in your code (it is inherently subopt

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-11 Thread SHUDO Kazuyuki
Anand Palaniswamy wrote: > sunwjit, symcjit and even hotspot do "implicit exceptions." Meaning a > null pointer exception is detected from a SIGSEGV, and the VM raises > the related NullPointerExcetion from the signal handler. TYA detects NullPointerExceptions with SIGSEGV on Linux. Even shuJIT

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-11 Thread Nathan Meyers
Anand Palaniswamy wrote: > > sunwjit, symcjit and even hotspot do "implicit exceptions." Meaning a > null pointer exception is detected from a SIGSEGV, and the VM raises > the related NullPointerExcetion from the signal handler. This offers > the best performance for the normal case where there

Re: JIT instability w.r.t. bad code?

1999-07-11 Thread Anand Palaniswamy
sunwjit, symcjit and even hotspot do "implicit exceptions." Meaning a null pointer exception is detected from a SIGSEGV, and the VM raises the related NullPointerExcetion from the signal handler. This offers the best performance for the normal case where there isn't a NPE. In general, doing co

Re: JIT

1999-07-01 Thread Michael Sinz
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:36:49 +0200 (MET DST), Mark Christiaens wrote: >I've got hold of the Sun sources (non-commercial) and am playing around >with it. I noticed that there are a few libraries included in the src >directory: > >libsunwjit.so >libsunwjit_g.so > >These are obviously the JIT compil

Re: JIT in pre2???

1999-06-09 Thread scode
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Re: JIT in pre2???

1999-06-09 Thread Albrecht Kleine
> > TYA surely isn't for the bit bucket. It is always nice to have an > > option. Could you imagine that Sun's JIT has quite a few bugs TYA > > Other reasons developing TYA are: > > -There are options beside of Linux: TYA is widely used Oops, have forgotten something: there's anothter option

Re: JIT in pre2???

1999-06-08 Thread Albrecht Kleine
> > > Is TYA headed for the great, big, bit bucket in the sky? :-( > > > > I very much doubt it. The JVM can run with multiple JITs, and TYA can > > run with multiple JVMs. > > TYA surely isn't for the bit bucket. It is always nice to have an > option. Could you imagine that Sun's JIT has quite

Re: JIT in pre2???

1999-06-06 Thread J.P.Lewis
The JIT is one developed by Sun, but it's a lot slower than the one Sun obtained from Symantec that is included in the windows version of java. Which in turn is said to be slower than hotspot for long-running programs. There was a good set of benchmarks on www.javalobby.org a month or so ago.

Re: JIT in pre2???

1999-06-06 Thread Stefan Proels
> > Is TYA headed for the great, big, bit bucket in the sky? :-( > > I very much doubt it. The JVM can run with multiple JITs, and TYA can > run with multiple JVMs. TYA surely isn't for the bit bucket. It is always nice to have an option. Could you imagine that Sun's JIT has quite a few bugs T

Re: JIT in pre2???

1999-06-06 Thread Nathan Meyers
Mike Greaves wrote: > Excuse me for asking, but am I to understand that Blackdown JDK1.2, as > of prerelease 2, now includes a JIT and uses it by default? And that > this JIT is based on Sun source code - i.e. the same one included with > the Solaris JDK1.2?? Yes, as of prerelease 1. > What are

Re: JIT question

1999-05-24 Thread Wim Ceulemans
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Re: JIT and unexpected verify errors for jdk1.2

1999-04-18 Thread Dimitris Vyzovitis
Albrecht Kleine wrote: > > > green native > == == > TYA compiled > EXC_BY_SIGNALS: hangs okay > NO EXC_BY_S...: okayokay > --- > sunwjit : hangs okay > > Does a such TYA release really makes sense..? >

Re: JIT and unexpected verify errors for jdk1.2

1999-04-16 Thread Albrecht Kleine
> > At any rate, who could answer questions concerning the linux port of sunwjit? > > > PS: Hopefully tya1.3 will be out real soon, so that we don't have to depend on > > sunwjit... > > As mentioned, there is an early TYA1.3 running here but I have some > heavy problems to get EXCEPTIONS_BY_SI

Re: JIT and unexpected verify errors for jdk1.2

1999-04-16 Thread Nate Williams
> BTW does anyone knows the current state of JDK1.2 for FreeBSD ? > (You know, TYA runs on FreeBSD too.) It's a ways away. Some progress has been made, but we're waiting for the Linux patches to be released for some of the integration, and Steve hasn't (yet) done that. Nate -

Re: JIT and unexpected verify errors for jdk1.2

1999-04-16 Thread Albrecht Kleine
> Dimitris Vyzovitis wrote: > At any rate, who could answer questions concerning the linux port of sunwjit? > PS: Hopefully tya1.3 will be out real soon, so that we don't have to depend on > sunwjit... OK, you won't to be depend on sunwjit, but don't expect to be faster than sunwjit. (Hope yo

Re: JIT and unexpected verify errors for jdk1.2

1999-04-14 Thread Dimitris Vyzovitis
Dimitris Vyzovitis wrote: // ... // lots_of_stuff // ... After some recompilations (still using jikes0.47),and the problem is no longer there. It is *mysterious* to me, as I can not reproduce the (possible) bug. I guess I have to retract that "... it looks like a jit bug to me..." (or not?) At

RE: JIT ????

1998-10-07 Thread Pelayo
-Mensaje original- De: Mehrdad Jahansoozi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: miƩrcoles 7 de octubre de 1998 0:03 Asunto: JIT >Greetings, > >Apparently, There is a confusion between JIT compiler, and JIT virtual >machine( VM ). >I was looking fo

Re: JIT ????

1998-10-06 Thread Java News Collector
At 05:59 PM 10/6/98 -0400, Mehrdad Jahansoozi wrote: >Greetings, > >Apparently, There is a confusion between JIT compiler, and JIT virtual >machine( VM ). And this isn't helping. The JIT is not the Java compiler. It is the "just in time" compiler which is also platform-specific and actually proc

Re: JIT compiler TYA

1998-09-22 Thread Albrecht Kleine
> Does anyone have the URL for this or any JIT that will work with > JDK1.1.6v4a. Thanks. ftp://gonzalez.cyberus.ca/pub/Linux/java/tya1.0.tgz Cheers Alb.

Re: JIT compiler TYA

1998-09-21 Thread Jeff Sider
Does anyone have the URL for this or any JIT that will work with JDK1.1.6v4a. Thanks. Leung Yau Wai wrote: > > Dear all, > > I would like to ask do TYA support a JAVA application with native > C function call? It seem that I got core dump in this suitation. I would > like to confirm

Re: JIT compiler TYA

1998-09-19 Thread Albrecht Kleine
Hi, > | > | I would like to ask do TYA support a JAVA application with native > | C function call? It seem that I got core dump in this suitation. I would > | like to confirm it! > > the first time. I sent a note to Albrecht Kleine and he advised me to > do the following: > > 1. Outcomme

RE: JIT compiler TYA

1998-09-18 Thread A . KLOS
-- | From: cs.lywab / mime, , , [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: java-linux / mime, , , [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: JIT compiler TYA | Date: Friday, September 18, 1998 3:21AM | | Dear all, | | I would like to ask do TYA support a JAVA application with native | C function call? It seem th

Re: JIT

1998-07-27 Thread Jerry Treweek
Albrecht Kleine wrote: > Hi, > > I've just uploaded another TYA JIT release > to tya home site: > > ftp://gonzalez.cyberus.ca/pub/Linux/java/tya1.0.tgz > Thanks Albrecht for your work, I was looking out for a JIT for Java under Linux - we will give it a good testing. This poses the question - a

Re: [Fwd: re. Jit for linux]

1998-05-29 Thread Michael Rohleder
Rani Pinchuk writes: > What about TYA? (It is still alive right?) - you can find its URL in > Java Tools for Linux page of blackdown: > http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/javatools.html And it works great for me! -- Working on SCO is like traveling back in time.

Re: [Fwd: re. Jit for linux]

1998-05-29 Thread Rani Pinchuk
ast. > > -- > > From: gaolei[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, May 29, 1998 12:14 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > &

RE: [Fwd: re. Jit for linux]

1998-05-29 Thread Villanueva, Edgar
have you tried kaffe its pretty fast. > -- > From: gaolei[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 29, 1998 12:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Fwd: re. Jit for linux] > > <><> > >

[Fwd: re. Jit for linux]

1998-05-29 Thread gaolei
Hi, Spankar, You really take me a bad news, you know, actually what I want to find is a good JIT for my servlet run on linux. :-( I am hardly able to image the thing is so bad. Even though I myself have never(don't laugh me) met any problems with Symantec JIT on windows, I'd rather believ

re. Jit for linux

1998-05-29 Thread Sriram Sankar
> Dose anybody could give me some advise on good jit > for java on linux? Or dose jdk1.1.6 have a default > jit? Even if you do find a JIT, beware of it. So far (possibly with the exception of the SunSoft JIT), none of the JIT's I've seen are reliable especially when you are running significan