Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meeting report: Notes on the topics we discussed

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Olgierd Eysymontt wrote:
> I've made A LOT of Java program, including the one of power systems,
> that made A LOT of complex matrix inversions very quickly.
>
> And YES IT RUNS ON LINUX as all the progrmas I've made has been made on
> linux and run on Windows WITHOUT NATIVE LIBRARIES.
>
> I think you really don't know what Java is, you can ask yourself why is
> one the most used languages now, check Sourceforge if in doubt.
>
> Java virtual machines has been very optimized in the last years and
> represent a hardware abstraction layer which I think is very necceasary
> today specially for folks on NetBSD, Solaris, AIX or whatever you want. 
>
> Olgierd

actually my question wasn't "does it run on linux", it was "linux on 
non-x86", "netbsd on sparc64", "freebsd on powerpc".

So actually I decided to play around some with the new electric which is 
written in java.  Any suggestions on which JVM I should try to install 
on my NetBSD/alpha machine?  The sun one doesn't have the machine 
dependant bits for this system.  Kaffe even with out jit3 doesn't 
compile.  Is there a prefered opensource JVM which has been ported to 
lots of systems?

Thanks
-Dan