Re: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-18 Thread Costin Manolache
Gary Benson wrote: > Costin Manolache wrote: >> My benchmarks ( > 1 yr ago ) showed GCJ-based tomcat to be as fast >> as the IBM JDK1.3 ( the fastest VM at that time ). There were small >> differences under different loads - but the garbage collector seemed >> like the biggest factor ( GCJ perform

Re: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-17 Thread Gary Benson
Costin Manolache wrote: > My benchmarks ( > 1 yr ago ) showed GCJ-based tomcat to be as fast > as the IBM JDK1.3 ( the fastest VM at that time ). There were small > differences under different loads - but the garbage collector seemed > like the biggest factor ( GCJ performed worse on JSP pages wher

Re: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-15 Thread Costin Manolache
Gary Benson wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been working on building Tomcat and its dependencies to native > code with gcj, and I'm interested to see how it compares against > Tomcat running under a 'normal' JVM. Now, I'm well aware that > benchmarks are not a real-world indicator of performance, but

Re: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-14 Thread Adam Megacz
Sadly it doesn't do any JITting. I recommend writing a custom classloader that Runtime.exec()'s gcj to compile the webapp into a .so, and then dlopen() that. - a Gary Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chad Johnson wrote: > > I can't help with the benchmark software but I've got a question

RE: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-14 Thread Chad Johnson
To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat As far as I know, it's just an interpreter, but I may be wrong. However, any calls to native-code stuff will execute as native code so it's perhaps not quite as bad as it may s

Re: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-14 Thread Gary Benson
Chad Johnson wrote: > I can't help with the benchmark software but I've got a question for > you. Generally speaking, how well does the gcj bytecode interpreter > perform? Is it purely and interpreter or does it do some jit'ing? As far as I know, it's just an interpreter, but I may be wrong. How

RE: Benchmarking gcj-built Tomcat

2003-10-14 Thread Chad Johnson
Gary, I can't help with the benchmark software but I've got a question for you. Generally speaking, how well does the gcj bytecode interpreter perform? Is it purely and interpreter or does it do some jit'ing? Chad Johnson -Original Message- From: Gary Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]