On 03/19/2012 07:11 PM, Barry Hawkins wrote: > The focus of my message was to point out the need for users of Debian > and its derivatives to be able to install an official JRE or JDK from > Oracle. If I gave the impression of criticizing OpenJDK, my apologies; > that was not the intent. > > Like so many others, I'll be happy when OpenJDK is the de facto > choice for all things based on the JVM. Currently, high performance > and graphical applications still see significant improvement when > using the Oracle JRE/JDK.
Comments like this are infuriating. I want to make OpenJDK competitive, but I can't do anything with this because I don't know what you're talking about. I can't reproduce the problem, so I can't fix it. Is there anything more frustrating than being told there's a problem, but not what it is? It's like something out of Kafka. Actual specific problems with performance are something we can address. Core performance differences are very few: It's the same VM. Oracle does have a few magic optimized classes we don't have, and they have a proprietary font renderer. We don't use Oracle's plugin. There isn't much else. > People are now using some less desirable approaches like the one > mentioned in a blog post from earlier in the year[0] which is not as > rigorous or disciplined as the approach we were taking when using > java-package years ago prior to the advent of the DLJ. I believe it > would be a service to our user community to provide the java-package > utility once more until the time when OpenJDK fully displaces Oracle's > non-free offering for all cases. I understand, and I agree. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f686d04.3090...@redhat.com
