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.

Received on Monday, 7 October 1996 11:58:02 UTC