On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:50:16AM +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Also, someone came up with good idea on the Frost Freenet board - could you 
> please put a link to the IBM JRE on the Downloads page, and change the 
> recommendation from Sun's to IBM's JRE? As most people seem to be finding, 
> IBM's JRE is light years ahead of Sun's... Just thought I'd mention it, as it 
> doesn't look like the people who were discussing this have gotten around to 
> posting it...

We used to recommend IBM's JRE and switched to recommending Sun's when
we discovered the heisenbug -- IBM's JRE was mangling 64-bit numbers in
certain code paths after JIT compilation.  That made us much less
trusting of the platform..

So you see, there is really *no* JVM that can be relied on.

-tc

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