Re: What are the disadvantages of using jikes instead of javac?

[Ola Samuelson]

Have you done any tests on SMP using SE v1.3.0-FCS  based on Sun's 1.3.0_01
code?
//OLAS

Nathan Meyers wrote:

>
> I used to believe that until I tried, some months back, a side-by-side
> comparison of some benchmark code compiled by the old Blackdown JDK1.2.2
> javac and a Sun-supplied javac on Solaris. On the same JVM, the code
> generated by the Sun compiler ran faster and utilized multi-threading well
> while the code generated by the Blackdown compiler kept just one CPU busy.
> I was told (by Sun) that the Blackdown JDK1.2.2 javac was based on an
> ancient Sun snapshot - which was the closest I ever got to an explanation of
> results that were, to say the least, wildly counterintuitive.


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