On Monday 04 Mar 2002 11:36, Tavin Cole wrote:
> 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.

Could this "mangling" be responsible for recent Fred crashes?

Regards.

Gordan

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