- From: Chris Tomlinson <C.Tomlinson@rosette.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:27:07 -0600
- To: Joel.Crisp@bristol.ac.uk, www-jigsaw@w3.org
At 09:14 AM 3/10/97 +0000, Joel.Crisp@bristol.ac.uk wrote: >Hi > >On 10 Mar, Anselm Baird_Smith wrote: >> Dmitriy Kruglyak writes: >> > I'd like to know whether the next release of Jigsaw will take >> > advantage of the new features in JDK 1.1 and whether the >> > compatibility with JDK 1.02 will be maintained (or there will >> > be a double release?). I guess one of the greatest features >> > of the new JDK is highly enhanced performance for both JVM >> > and compiler. It would be interesting to see benchmarks of >> > Jigsaw on JDK 1.1 against Jigsaw on JDK 1.02 and other web >> > servers. >> >> 1.0alpha5 will compile/run under 1.1 (not taking advantage of it >> fully, though) >> >> My plan was for next release to be totally 1.1, I had hopes that by >> next June, all Java VM would have been 1.1. As this doesn't seem to ne >> realistic, I might, as you say have to do two releases (a tough job >> :-( >> >> If you have strong feelings against a Java 1.1 only release in June, >> let me know, >> >> Anselm. >> > >To my mind, this depends on the release of the LINUX JDK 1.1. The >dev kit is available for SOLARIS, and I am using an early SGI port, >which seems to be fine. Add linux support to this, and you have ix86, >ALPHA and ARM coverage as well. This would indicate to me that there is >little reason to use the JDK 1.02. Given also that in the early days >JDK 1.02 was also seriously platform limited, these platforms do not >seem to be an unreasonable assumption for what people are actually >using. > >Joel Also the IBM AIX 1.1 beta is out and I seem to recall that the DEC OSF/1 is also out. ciao, Christine Tomlinson
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