Re: BigInteger on 64 bit platform

From: Juergen Kreileder (jk_at_blackdown.de)
Date: 02/03/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 03:27:34 +0100

rmcnutt <r.m@earthlink.net> writes:

> Neil Campbell <spam@thebatcave.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:<401ebfea$0$18376$fa0fcedb@lovejoy.zen.co.uk>...
>> Is a 'Client Mode' VM for AMD64 in development?

I'm sure you'll understand that I only can comment this from the
Blackdown standpoint: We haven't decided yet if we'll develop a
HotSpot Client VM for AMD64.

> Thanks for the the information. I was not familiar with Blackdown.
> I've been using Sun's SDK 1.4. I'm using Fedora Core at present.
> Will Blackdown work Fedora64?

Yes.

As for your original question (so you don't have to post it daily now ;-),
write a benchmark testing operations that are important for you
and I'll give it try. (I've done a simple benchmark with
BigInteger::multiply(), the AMD64 VM was about 25% faster than the
IA32 VM on the same machine. But this result may have very limited
meaning for your actual code.)

        Juergen 

-- 
Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/