Re: [wlug] IBM and the JVM

s swami wrote:

Great. So what's the problem? Simple: IBM's JVM just can't compete with Sun's. Both of them are free for us to download and use. Try them yourself. Yep, IBM can't even give its JVM away. Whose JVM do you have running on your machine?

I have IBM's JVM running on my machine at home. The last release of the Sun JVM for Linux on PowerPC (a Blackdown version) was 1.3.1 and that didn't even have a JIT compiler. IBM open-sourcing their JVM would get us JIT compiler source for x86 and PowerPC, open-sourcing Sun's would only get you JIT compilers for x86 and Sparc.