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Re: State of Java on PPC



Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:20:07 +0200, 
Charles-Edouard Ruault <ce@idtect.com> wrote: 

> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 09:10 -0700, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
>>> 	A few years ago, the state of Java on Linux/PPC was less than
>>> 	that of Java on x86.  Has that improved?
>>There may be newer versions of the IBM JDK I suppose...
> As far as i know the latest version of the IBM Java Development Kit is
> 1.4.2, available here:
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux140/ 
> I'm running it on my powerbook G4 with no problem (aside the fact that
> you have to select the correct platform version for the JIT to work
> fine).

... and all the free JVM's/ compilers work fine on powerpc. Everything
is not implemented yet but you can have a try to:

. sablevm (runtime)
. kaffe (JDK)
. gij/gcj (runtime/ compiler)
. jikes (compiler)
. jamvm (runtime)

Thanks to report bugs with test cases ;-)

Cheers,

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