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 _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
