Alternative JVM with Groovy (Azul,...) ?

2018-03-08 Thread mg
Hi, I would be interested to hear if anyone has experience with using alternative JVMs with Groovy, especially Azul (https://www.azul.com/) ? Licensing costs for long term OpenJDK support seem to be much lower, and the JVM has additional benefits such as an elastic memory model (JVM memory is

Re: Alternative JVM with Groovy (Azul,...) ?

2018-03-08 Thread Russel Winder
On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 13:09 +0100, mg wrote: > Hi, > I would be interested to hear if anyone has experience with using > alternative JVMs with Groovy, especially Azul (https://www.azul.com/) > ? > Licensing costs for long term OpenJDK support seem to be much lower, > and the JVM has additional

Re: Alternative JVM with Groovy (Azul,...) ?

2018-03-08 Thread Charles Monteiro
Eric: I don’t see Azul on seaman but I do see the Java feature from zulu.org ,so that is what you mean right ? thanks -- Charles Monteiro On March 8, 2018 at 9:06:01 AM, Eric Helgeson (erichelge...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi, It used to be the case that OpenJDK and OracleJDK had quite a few

Re: Alternative JVM with Groovy (Azul,...) ?

2018-03-08 Thread Mauro Molinari
They have their own set of debs with their own maintainers, although they use Debian source and patches heavily. Honestly I don't know whether they use the Debian binaries as-is, but I would say they should compile sources by their own because the package base for dependencies is different.

Re: Alternative JVM with Groovy (Azul,...) ?

2018-03-08 Thread Eric Helgeson
Hi Charles, zulu.org it says "Powered by Azul" and the links on Azul for zulu point to zulu.org - so my assumption is they are one in the same. Thanks, -Eric On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:01 AM Charles Monteiro wrote: > corrected: > > Eric: > > > > I don’t see Azul on