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From: ted@wiz.plymouth.edu (Ted Wisniewski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: JDK 1.1?
Date: 9 Jun 1997 15:39:42 GMT
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stephen farrell (stephen+usenet@farrell.org) wrote:
: Pedro Miguel das Neves Valenca Rocha <pmrocha@isr.uc.pt> writes:
: As I understand it, there is not.  Jeffrey Hsu says he gave his
: patches for 1.02 to "someone" who is working on 1.1, but didn't recall
: who that person was (perhaps he reads this newsgroup?)

You should look at Kaffe, see www.kaffe.org  I use it under FreeBSD and it
works just fine for me,  I like the speed of version 0.84 (JDK 1.02)
it is only 25% slower to compile on my P133 than our Alpha 2100A/300.

	
: Personally, I'm not too thrilled with the linux port (I've clocked it
: at >5x slower than sol/x86) and the lack of freebsd port... so I'm
: seriously contemplating switching over to solaris/x86 on my desktop
: =(.

: --sf