Re: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-18 Thread Costin Manolache
Gary Benson wrote: Costin Manolache wrote: My benchmarks ( 1 yr ago ) showed GCJ-based tomcat to be as fast as the IBM JDK1.3 ( the fastest VM at that time ). There were small differences under different loads - but the garbage collector seemed like the biggest factor ( GCJ performed worse

Re: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-17 Thread Gary Benson
Costin Manolache wrote: My benchmarks ( 1 yr ago ) showed GCJ-based tomcat to be as fast as the IBM JDK1.3 ( the fastest VM at that time ). There were small differences under different loads - but the garbage collector seemed like the biggest factor ( GCJ performed worse on JSP pages where

Re: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-15 Thread Costin Manolache
Gary Benson wrote: Hi all, I've been working on building Tomcat and its dependencies to native code with gcj, and I'm interested to see how it compares against Tomcat running under a 'normal' JVM. Now, I'm well aware that benchmarks are not a real-world indicator of performance, but I

Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-14 Thread Gary Benson
Hi all, I've been working on building Tomcat and its dependencies to native code with gcj, and I'm interested to see how it compares against Tomcat running under a 'normal' JVM. Now, I'm well aware that benchmarks are not a real-world indicator of performance, but I don't have any particular web

RE: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-14 Thread Chad Johnson
] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat Hi all, I've been working on building Tomcat and its dependencies to native code with gcj, and I'm interested to see how it compares against Tomcat running under a 'normal' JVM. Now, I'm well

Re: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-14 Thread Gary Benson
Chad Johnson wrote: I can't help with the benchmark software but I've got a question for you. Generally speaking, how well does the gcj bytecode interpreter perform? Is it purely and interpreter or does it do some jit'ing? As far as I know, it's just an interpreter, but I may be wrong.

RE: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-14 Thread Chad Johnson
To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat As far as I know, it's just an interpreter, but I may be wrong. However, any calls to native-code stuff will execute as native code so it's perhaps not quite as bad as it may seem. Gary

Re: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-14 Thread Adam Megacz
Sadly it doesn't do any JITting. I recommend writing a custom classloader that Runtime.exec()'s gcj to compile the webapp into a .so, and then dlopen() that. - a Gary Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chad Johnson wrote: I can't help with the benchmark software but I've got a question for