Re: What is 1.3.1-02d-FCS version of JRE???
Bill Huey (hui) <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:47:56PM -0400, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Since the Blackdown PPC Linux project was so small and I had such a hard time > finding anyone to help it along, I finally just pretty much gave up. I have > only done the barest minimum to keep the Blackdown JDK 1.3.1 functioning (it > has no hotspot or JIT). I simply can not compete with IBM's JDK 1.4.X with > fancy JIT available for both Linux ppc 32 and ppc64. > > I do know there are some people still interested in PPC Linux support so they > may have something interesting to add. The HotSpot JIT backend is a monster as well as the entire compiler/runtime on many fronts. It's not trivial to interpret Sun's compiler intermediate representation and have it output something sensible with proper register allocation, etc... But regardless, I and mostly likely others thanks you for your effort, and I personally sympathize with your suffering. :) bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]