Re: [Java-gnome-developer] JVM benchmarks: kaffe takes the cake

[J. M. B. <jmb...@co...>]

Clemens Eisserer wrote:

> 1.) What does the *9, *3 mean for memory-consumption?
> Have you ever heard of threads? Threads are under Linux(o.k., thats 
> not really correct) processes that share stuff between. That means 
> Sun´s JVM does need 7,5% of your memory, not 67,5%.
>

Actually, threads aren't a problem under Linux if you are using the NPTL 
thread library and JDK1.4.2.

> 4.)
> > better choice then Sun's java. This makes you wonder how good is Sun
> > investing in the Linux platform.
> Sun is currently rewriting their whole Java2D/x11 rendering pipeline.
> They will use OpenGL starting from 1.5 for drawing things. I´ve spoken 
> with a Java2D-enginier and he told me that the results are impressive.
> If Linux would not matter, they wouldnt spend so much time improving 
> it on Linux/Desktop.

I'm glad to see that they are moving to OpenGL for this. I hadn't heard 
this information before.

Does anyone know if GCJ will be updated to include the language changes 
coming with 1.5 (Java ?3?)