JWS - Problems with native compile. HELP?

1999-07-18 Thread John N. Alegre
I am trying to compile the native library in JavaWebServer1.1.3 using the instructions from the blackdown site. I applied the diffs by hand. When I try to compile make complains about errors in Makefile.lnx. [root@zaragoza native]# (cd native; make -f Makefile.lnx install) bash: native: No such

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

JDK1.2.2 request (and reason)

1999-07-18 Thread swansma
Hello, Here's one vote for a 1.2.2 version. I don't mind that no new linux-specific bugs are fixed, I just need to JDK fixes. 1.2.2 fixes some serious RMI bugs: Are there any porters out there that would consider doing a 1.2.2 build? I'm assuming that Sun would make the source available to the j

Re: JWS - Problems with native compile. HELP?

1999-07-18 Thread Jeff Galyan
Make sure the lines below each Makefile target use tabs as the spacing instead of spaces. If you're using an editor which is set up to convert tabs to spaces, change that preference. --Jeff "John N. Alegre" wrote: > > I am trying to compile the native library in JavaWebServer1.1.3 using the >

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 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: JWS - Problems with native compile. HELP?

1999-07-18 Thread John N. Alegre
Jeff, (Sound of hand slapping forehead) Thanks for the HELLO. Isn't Java grand. Just sweeps all that legacy crap right out of mind. Haven't dealt with a Makefile in two years. All is now well. JWS up and running. Peace john On 18-Jul-99 Jeff Galyan wrote: > Make sure the lines below each M

Re: Text Editor

1999-07-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
> I there anyone out there who knows how I could go about implementing atext > editor using maybe the TextArea which writes from right to left and deletes > backwards(the right key). > > Do I define a cursor, and play around with that? Or do I use the getRows and > getColumns methods/ Use

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