Other architectures?

[Antony T Curtis]

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On Saturday 12 April 2003 2:37 pm, Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:32:29PM -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> >   Would jdk14 build on architectures besides x86?  I know Hotspot has a
> > lot of machine specific code, but there should be code for sparc64 for
> > sure.  But does it build and run on FreeBSD/sparc64?
>
> It hasn't been tried on sparc64, although I'm tempted to do so sometime
> fairly soon.
>
> >   I would imagine that alpha and ia64 are much harder, and perhaps
> > impossible, since Sun is not likely to be targetting these platforms.
> > Perhaps maybe ia64, if Solaris is ported to it sometime in the future.
>
> There is ia64 code in the 1.4.1 SCSL release and Sun have had a linux-ia64
> beta out for 1.4.1 for quite some time.  Alpha is harder, but certainly
> not impossible.

Compaq used to have a quite good whitepaper about their implementation of Java 
on Alpha - including details as to the optimizations they performed to get 
good runtime performance.

I remember reading it and thinking that the Compaq engineers were practically 
documenting how the JIT and JVM was written.


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Antony T Curtis BSc     Unix Analyst Programmer
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/antony.t.curtis/
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