From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: jdk 1.4? From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: "marc. h." Cc: Derrik Pates , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <20020226160614.GA8235@hbe.ca> References: <15482.32063.537466.19280@esb.bbn.com> <20020225182235.D713@ukans.edu> <20020226021641.GC10864@shiva.marian> <20020226040351.GA26767@dsdk12.net> <20020226104929.GA7754@hbe.ca> <20020226160039.GA18735@dsdk12.net> <20020226160614.GA8235@hbe.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 26 Feb 2002 17:19:57 +0100 Message-Id: <1014740397.870.1066.camel@tibook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Die, 2002-02-26 at 17:06, marc. h. wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:00:39AM -0700, Derrik Pates wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:49:30AM +0100, marc. h. wrote: > > > lack of JIT hurts though. Have you ever tried the IBM j2SDK for PPC?. It's > > > noticeably faster on my Powerbook G3. (you can download it from IBM, just > > > google for it.) Problem is that the IBM jvm has been broken for me since kernel > > > 2.4.16. 2.4.15-pre1 is the last know working kernel for me. On later kernels it > > > just keeps calling sched_yield() endlessly and burns System CPU time. I'd like > > > to fire off an email to IBM about the problem, but don't know exactly where to > > > fire the email off to. I use the blackdown (whose excellent work I appreciate) > > > release now as well. > > > > I hadn't actually tried the IBM JVM for PPC - the only link I'd seen for > > it pointed to some SuSE site. I am, however, running 2.4.17-benh0 on > > this iBook, so I guess if you experience is correct, it wouldn't work on > > here anyhow. Also, did it come with an OJI Java plugin for use with > > Mozilla? (I'd bet not.) > > Would you mind giving it a shot? (or someone else?) I want to be sure that it's > not a local Glibc issue or such thing. I also haven't tried a recent benh > kernel.. Works here, but then I've applied a couple patches: 2.4.18-pre9-benh-o1-xfs-lolat-aa ;) As you mention sched_yield(), the O(1) scheduler patch could make the difference? > you can download from: http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/dklx130/dklx130-p > > only annoying thing is that you have to register for a password. You can get it from the SuSE FTP server without that. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/