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

[Olgierd Eysymontt <olgierd.eysymontt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

May be this site http://java-virtual-machine.net/other.html can give you
an overview, if you can't use Sun's VM, I'd recommend the IBM Blackdown
VM, which has been reported to be complete and very fast.

Olgierd
 

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 09:08 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote:
> 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
>