On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Sergey Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > I had tested SPECjbb2005 on Harmony and submitted the results for > reviewing > to SPEC. > SPEC committee has some questions on my submission concerning Harmony > support and testing of command-line options. > > 1) Support of Harmony: > > The issue is section (1) of the SPECjbb2005 Run Rules [1], citing: > "The implementation is generally available, documented and supported > by the providing vendor." > > Though the support requirement for SPECjbb2005 is loosely defined, all > current publications are on Java implementations that provide various > levels of support. SPEC argues that this level of support cannot be > compared > to forum support provided by Harmony developers. SPEC argues that current > production JVMs on the market today are fully supported by the companies > that develop them and they need to clarify these issues before any result > using Harmony can be accepted. > > What can you comment on this? Hi, As an independent committer of Apache Harmony and java consultant, I also offer commercial support for Harmony. > > 2) Testing: > > SPEC also concerned about testing required for performance optimizations > to > be > considered as generally available, broad and suggested for production use. > They > want to know what checks are in place to prevent unsafe changes that > benefit SPECjbb2005 only? > > I will be glad to see the input on these questions from Harmony > developers. We have a huge test suite, including unit tests, and regression tests. We're doing very well so far. > > Thanks, > Sergey Nesterov, > CS Department of MSU > > [1] http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/docs/RunRules.html > -- Best regards, Andrew Zhang db4o - database for Android: www.db4o.com http://zhanghuangzhu.blogspot.com/
