Re: New Volano Report

2001-04-17 Thread John Neffenger
Hi Kazuyuki, > I remember Hewlett Packard was working on the problem and they > introduced a select()-like API into their class library. Sun also provided a Java wrapper for its Solaris /dev/poll interface with the Solaris JDK Production Release. I'm not sure whether it's still in the Solaris J

Re: New Volano Report

2001-04-17 Thread John Neffenger
Hi Matt, I did some processor scalability tests with VolanoMark back in August, 1998, testing Microsoft's and Sun's Java virtual machines on one through four processors (both Intel and SPARC). The results are under the section called "The hardware solution" in my JavaWorld article: "Which Jav

Re: New Volano Report

2001-04-16 Thread Matt Peterson
John, Thanks for sending the results of the Volano benchmark to the list. It was interesting to see the performance comparisons. However, I was disappointed to see that SMP hardware was not used in the test. Is there a chance that we will see published numbers that show results on SMP hardware

New Volano Report

2001-04-14 Thread John Neffenger
I posted our latest test results yesterday: The Volano Report http://www.volano.com/report.html Thank you, Blackdown, for keeping green threads alive and working extraordinarily well on Linux! Sun abandoned their "sunwjit" back in 1999: java.lang.StackOverflowError with sunwjit http://