RE: VMs

I have tried it with very good results in terms of speed. It really "rocked
it" :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hoeller Juergen [mailto:juergen.hoeller@xxx.com]
> Sent: 04 April 2002 06:09
> To: resin-interest@xxx.com
> Subject: VMs
>
>
> Recently, BEA acquired Appeal Virtual Machines and their server VM
> JRockit (http://www.jrockit.com) and obviously changed the licensing:
>
> <quote>As of the aquisition, the JRockit Virtual Machine is available
> for free! Now everyone can benefit from superior Java performance on
> Intel platforms.</quote>
>
> So if this means that everyone can use the JRockit VM as a free
> alternative, I wonder whether anyone has experiences with it and its
> speed and stability. They claim to have optimized it for server usage,
> so there should be advantages to the "standard" VMs.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, there are currently the
> following relevant
> J2SE VMs for Windows and Linux, all of them free of charge:
> - Sun HotSpot Client VM 1.3.1/1.4: Windows, Linux;
> - Sun HotSpot Server VM 1.3.1/1.4: Windows, Linux;
> - IBM VM 1.3.0: Windows, Linux;
> - Blackdown VM 1.3.1: Linux;
> - JRockit VM 3.1 (implementing J2SE 1.3): Windows, Linux.
>
> Appeal claim to beat the IBM VM in terms of SPECjbb2000 results. Is
> there anyone who runs Resin on JRockit and has compared it to
> other VMs?
> Besides, anyone having performance comparisons between the Sun VMs and
> the IBM VM on the same machine?
>
> Regards,
> Juergen
>
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Received on Thu 04 Apr 2002 04:21:35 -0800