Sun JDK 1.4.2_01 for Linux

[Greg Lewis]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:45:17PM +0200, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> Is it just my imagination or is the Sun JDK 1.4.2_01 for Linux 
> (java/linux-sun-jdk14) stable and very well performing? On my FreeBSD 4.8-S 
> systems it executes my big Ant build processes quite a bit faster than our 
> own native JDK 1.4. I'm seeing something like a 15% speed increase.
> 
> Anyone else have any experience with this JDK?

I agree that it feels snappier (although I have done no benchmarking).  It
also fixes some graphical issues.  Unfortunately it has one regression
that we're seeing at work with the NIO selector code, so we're currently
stuck with 1.4.1_02 :(.

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