> The latest pre-release version of OpenJDK 15 unfortunately dropped native > Hotspot > support for Solaris and Linux SPARC which is why we have to resort to using > Zero > only. > > The updated diff patches the debian/rules to reflect these changes by > switching > sparc64 to Zero-only and dropping the configure option > --enable-deprecated-ports.
I just read up on Zero [1] [2] - it's a bit sad that things have to be this way with Hotspot. Hopefully the slow paths that Shark has to take have been improved since then (or will be improved in the future). [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090531095111/http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2009/05/21/zero-and-shark-openjdk-port.html [2] https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/ZeroSharkFaq