Hi!
On Don, 18 Jan 2001 Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Yavor Kolarov wrote:
>
> > Recently an interesting question crossed my mind - is there a project for
> > "emedding" JRE as part of Linux system. By embedding I mean starting it at
> > system boot or the first time it's needed and keep it running, so that when
> > the user starts an Java application java is already there and start time is
> > shortened. One of the reasons lots of users avoid java is because even the
> > simplest application loads several times slower than its naive ecuivalent.
> > I know about the kernel module that invokes JRE when you exec a java .class
> > file(with appropriate +x permission). But it doesn't keep JVM is not resident.
>
> We have the same problem with just about all of the non-native/interpreted
> code run under Linux (i.e., Perl, Python, etc). I think something like
> that would severely impact performance of the kernel.
>
> But something like that would be cool for an embedded application, like
> for a hardware appliance.
I thought there was a JVM available as a kernel module? (KissVM?)
And don't you think that running a JVM as part of a Linux kernel is a waste of
resources? Why not the kernel on top of the JVM? I thought that's what the JOS
project is aiming for...
Ciao,
Andreas
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