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Jigsaw 1.0alpha3 first look
Bruce Nelson writes:
> Anselm.. Thanks for your efforts to get alpha3 released!
>
> We are started to taked a look at the new release last night
> and set it up with the same environment that we had run alpha1
> (IBM AIX Java 1.02 with JIT and green-threads). We came accross an
> interesting problem -- (bug?) that is either Jigsaw or Java related.
> Alpha3 runs stable (but kind of slow) with regular Java,
> with JIT enabled it still runs stable - and fast - no problems,
> but when green-threads are enabled the socket handling on network
> connections gets very wierd (strange) -
>
> The problem:
>
> with green-threads enabled the browser will make the TCP connection but can't
> get its URI accross to the server -- you end up with a "Document Contains
> no data" error (from Netscape for example) which tells me the connection was
> dropped. If you telnet to that same host on the http port and enter a URL by
> hand -- it works great -- (if you dont mind entering URIs ;-)) -- This is
> not a big issue for us. The original intent of using green-threads was to
> boost performance on Jigsaw and our Sybase drivers.... but as IBM says in
> thier documentation "some applications may not work with green-threads".
Unfortunatelly I don't know enough about IBM work on green
threads. The only thing I can say is that if you have a mean to avoid
green thread, avoid them like a plea ;-) [They are slowwww]
Anselm.
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