Performance of Java on FreeBSD vs. Linux and others

[Beastie]

>Forgive me for bringing up this issue again. I tried searching in the
>archive, and I could only find discussions from late 2006. Now that
>FreeBSD 7.0 is out and we have a new scheduler, can someone comment on
>performance of Java on FreeBSD vs. Linux and others? I tried following
>the old thread and I believe it was inconclusive rather than that
>FreeBSD is definitely slower. Yet, there was an argument on how much
>slower. I would really like to know this information because I will be
>doing heavy number crunching in Java. A 20% performance gain could
>save me 1-2 day at a time.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Shark
>

Hi.

About java performance.
May be this nubers will help to decide. The results of java SPEC tests
done by Kris Kennaway early this year:

http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/specjava.png