I likewise can give SSH access to a ppc64 machine (PowerMac G5 7,3) running Debian 7.5.
On 07/10/2014 02:51 PM, Ruben Vandeginste wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 4:13 AM, Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> > wrote: >> >> I would like to run some programs that require a JVM on >> "alternative" platforms, like armel/powerpc (these are arches for >> which I have hardware running Debian, but others might also be of >> interest). (Please, feel free to cross-post this message to >> other ports, if you deem this to be relevant.) >> >> But anything related to Java is too slow on such architectures >> with the default, unoptimized Zero JVM and I'm having some >> problems while trying to use other JVM implementations that we >> have in the archive. >> > > Hello, > > It's been a while, but I did test cacao and jamvm before as better > alternatives to the default Zero jvm. My conclusion back then was > that they're not really practically usable except for test or toy > programs. > > Even longer ago, I did use the IBM jdk 6 on powerpc and that one > was actually usable. This one would most likely still have the best > performance of the available jdks on powerpc. Version 7 of the jdk > is available, but it does not seem to work on Apple hardware (G4). > > Regarding arm hardware, there is an embedded jvm available from > Oracle, thanks to the popularity of the Raspberry Pi. I did not > test that one however. > > Either way, I gave up on using java on my powerpc laptop. It is > simply too slow to do any useful programming in java with it. I > think that clojure and scala will be even slower. > > kind regards, Ruben > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53c438a2.2070...@appleside.org
