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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!torn!news.rns.net!flint.sentex.net!not-for-mail From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Java slow with FreeBSD JDK Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:16:21 -0500 Organization: RingZero Computing Lines: 24 Message-ID: <331E4515.2781E494@quickweb.com> References: <331AD4C5.2781E494@cs.mun.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.112.20.93 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA i386) To: Paul Manuel <paul8@cs.mun.ca> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36688 Paul Manuel wrote: > > I wrote a couple of small applets and compiled and ran them on four > different OS's (FreeBSD, linux, Sun-OS 4.1.4 and OSF). The FreeBSD > machine is a PPro 200 with 128M of RAM. This is the fastest machine > of the ones that I tested. However, it was the slowest when running > the applet with the appletviewer. Does anyone know what gives? > Make sure you have edited /etc/make.config and uncommented "HAVE_FPU" - then libm (used heavily in the JDK) will use your floating point hardware in the PPro.. Makes a huge difference. > Paul Manuel > Systems Programmer > Memorial University of NF. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hey, what's Memorial's CS department like these days? Are they doing Java stuff, FreeBSD stuff? Just curious - I'm from Pasadena, but left the island to get my degree. Woulnd't mind going back for a Masters though... -Mark