Re: RFP: jrockit -- A virtual machine for Java

[Johan Walles]

No, it can't be built from sources.  The .deb would have to build upon 
the binaries shipped by BEA.

JRockit currently runs on ia32 and ia64.
Even with these limitations, I don't really see how Debian would be 
worse off with having JRockit in non-free than without it.  Although I 
*can* see how you (as a PowerPC user) wouldn't be interested in doing 
the packaging :-).

 Regards //Johan
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From: Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-java@lists.debian.org
Sent: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:07:14 +0200
Subject: Re: RFP: jrockit -- A virtual machine for Java
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Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:47:24 -0700,
Johan Walles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just filed an RFP (bug 273693) for BEA's JRockit. JRockit is a
non-free virtual machine for Java that fully implements everything 
that
SUN's VM does. In addition it out-performs both SUN and IBM on many
real-world workloads.
Even if JRockit is not open source, can we build it from sources?
If not, I strongly discourage to package it and put it in the official
archive.
Also, which arches JRockit can run on? If it's only x86, you can not
count on me ;-) Let's make a good ppc JVM and I'll reconsider my
position ;-)
Many thanks for your proposal but I'm not sure it's a good idea...
Cheers,
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