Re: linux and java

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
18 Sep 1997 16:32:28 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970918105736.753A-100000@entropy.muc.muohio.edu>
By author: Aaron T Porter <atporter@entropy.muc.muohio.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The latest InfoWorld has a big java article(1), including some
> benchmarks(2). These benchmarks, while being quite silly, do show linux
> as simply the fastest Java platform -- a p166/48meg ran the suite 2
> seconds slower than the fastest platform, a ppro 180/64meg. The tests
> used Netscape 3.02 on a Caldera system. My question is how would this
> performance compare to kernel binary support? As a side note, why do
> these tests always pit different OS's against each other on mis-matched
> hardware? No duh NT on a ppro180 is going to beat win 3.1 on a 486/66.
> Linux also blew away some decent sized Solaris boxen.
>

Kernel binary support would, if anything, be *lots* slower because you'd be
stuck with a huge emulator in nonswappable RAM. It is also completely
the Wrong Thing [TM]. Kernel != Faster.

-hpa

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