Re: JDK on Alpha works fine but dog slow.

[Uncle George <gatgul voicenet com>]

i myself would like to know where the bottle necks are BUT profiling on the
( many ) shared libs that go into making the JDK work in not available.
it should also be noted that the JDK is still built WITHOUT the short/byte
instructions available in the 21164 processors. I'm sure the byte code
interperter speed would improve.
gat

Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've installed Uncle George's binary version of JDK 1.1.5 some time ago
> now and it works like a charme. There's just one problem..
> In several benchmarks my Java programs run about 10% faster on my
> 600MHz 164LX box than on an intel Pentium MMX system running at 166MHz.
>
> Is this a problem of the precompiled binaries or is there a general
> problem with running Java code on AXP? Has anyone else experienced this
> problem? If anyone needs test programs, just mail me :->
>