> Your negativity sucks. Porting Java to OpenBSD was and is not > a trivial effort. It also serves as an excellent test bed for > threads, the runtime linker and large memory applications. > > Porting Java to OpenBSD enabled the LOCKSS project to use it > for its noble goals. It uncovered deadlocks in our pthread > lib that resulted in large improvements to libpthread. Its use > of dlopen() and friends resulted in significant improvements > in our runtime linker. Oh and who made those improvements??? > The same person who took the time to port Java to OpenBSD!! Me > and other OpenBSD developers who saw the need to improve things. > > BTW, all those system level improvements have made significant > stability gains for applications like firefox, KDE, OpenOffice, > Asterisk, etc, etc which all use threads and dlopen() alot. > > Quite frankly I'm pretty upset at all the 'Java sucks' banter on > misc. If you and the other naysayers don't realize that porting > Java to OpenBSD was a 'Good-Thing' then you are just UNINFORMED! > > -Kurt > >
Any negativity shed on misc@ or elsewhere shall never be enough to overcome how much you folks rock, and how much appreciation had for the work we all invest in progressing this system we love so much! So thank you, to all, saying it is never enough, let's hack :) Cheers, ~Jason
