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[rrmalloy at mediaone.net (Richard R. Malloy)]

Derek Martin wrote:

> Today, Tewksbury, Chuck gleaned this insight:
>
> > what JRE should I run on my RedHat 6.1 box?
>
> None... Java sucks! ;)
>
> But seriously, you have really two choices.  RedHat comes with Kaffe and
> there's also the Blackdown port of Sun's Java engine, which I have no idea
> where to get.  Not only that, but it might not really be called blackdown,
> but something else entirely.  But a websearch should yeild something
> useful.
>
> In fact, it's occured to me that I might be mistaken about JRE referring
> to Java, and you're really asking a completely different question!  If so,
> then I have no idea.  :)
>
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>From the timing tests I've done with the linpack (Gaussian elimination)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/linpack.html
the IBM compilers/VM are about an order of magnitude  faster (on red hat 6.1
dual PIII 600MHz) then the 1.2 and 1.2.2rc4
that I got from Sun. Also the Jikes -- IBM, open source, compiler is the
fastest I've used.  (see http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com, and
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks ) IBM seems very committed to Java
and Linux separately and in combination.


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