Re: Free Java (Was: Trouble with VM?)
Hi Etienne,
I'm chipping in to fix some bugs in your description of kaffe ;)
Etienne Gagnon wrote:
Kaffe is the oldest of the Free jvm's. It has, currently, the best class
library support (but implements quite old JDK versions; minimal support
for latest libraries). Dalibor and others are currently working on making
It's not fully converted to GNU Classpath, but it already includes or
offers easy ways to include some libraries free runtime libraries that
are not part of GNU Classpath (yet). A working java.util.regex (via GNU
regexp), javax.sound (tritonus.org), java.net.URI (through kaffe hackers
wanting to run latest Saxon), and in the next release easy ways to
integrate javax.crypto, javax.security (GNU Crypto) & javax.net (Jessie)
jars into kaffe. I hoped to be able to chuck in a corba implementation
before 1.1.3 was out, but, alas, so many things to do, so little time [1] ;)
Kaffe to work with GNU Classpath class libraries. Kaffe has a JIT compiler
and thus achieves very good performance, usually. Kaffe's primary native
Thanks for the praise, but it's not so good when compared with hotspot.
But there is a kaffe fork of an older version of kaffe called Latte,
that is supposed to reach Hotspot like performance on sparc processors.
As usual, we need more developers to get all that exciting work folded
back in.
And another fork of kaffe, JanosVM, includes support for re-jitting
code, that's interesting for re-optimising 'hot' methods. So I hope that
we can start doing more work on integrating those improvements back into
kaffe once we're done with the Classpath merge.
cheers,
dalibor topic
[1] Did I mention we need more hackers [2], just like sablevm? ;)
[2] Anecdotal evidence shows that by being part of the free java
community wonderful women will fall in love with you. All free Java
hackers I've met personally have had no problem finding the right girl. ;)
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