jdk on alpha

[Bernd Walter]

On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:21:42PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 06:50:17PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:25:44AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > > What are the outstanding issues?
> > > > 
> > > > I've read on http://kjkoster.org/java/content/newarch.jsp that
> > > > invokeNative_alpha.s needs to be done.
> > > > Is this still true?
> > > 
> > > Yes.
> > 
> > OK - that needs to be done.
> 
> Keep in mind -- it's for classic VM only (i.e. no JIT and 1.3 only).

Thanks for clarification.
So I will have to start with jdk13.

On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 02:46:14PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > unless you're doing it for research purposes.  My 486/66 box with 16MB
> > > of memory blows the doors off my 500Mhz Alpha with 256MB of memory.
> > > Java on the alpha is slow, piggy, and basically useless.
> > 
> > Well - I can't argue on that, but having at least a runable java is
> > required today in many cases - even in simple one such as web browsing.
> 
> Again, it's *SO SLOW* as to be complete unusable.  Again, my 486/66
> blows the doors off of the Alpha.  Rendering a page on an Alpha using
> Java is simply way too slow and resource hungry.

I will see.

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