Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 19:29, John Neffenger wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> > Also, 2.5.x Linux has changes to their 1:1 model that greatly
>> > increases scalability for dealing with a large number of threads.
>>
>> I was under the impression that Java application developers will
>> have to wait for the Java virtual machines to take advantage of
>> those threading changes before we see any benefits. I read that
>> IBM needs to make changes in their Java VM on Linux to support it,
>> for example. Is that correct?
>
> That is my understanding right now. The latest JVM's from Sun and
> IBM apparently take steps to disable NPTL.
Huh? RH 9 already uses NPTL, Sun and Blackdown JVMs work on it.
(I don't know about IBM's.)
> I'm not if anyone working on the blackdown project is planning to
> get support for NPTL in ahead of Sun or IBM.
It already works.
(IBM's NGPT would have required some changes in JVMs but NGPT is dead.)
Juergen
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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/
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