Benjamin Black wrote: > [1] http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/INSTALL-1.3-j2sdk
blackdown java seems to be a lot slower than IBM, or even SUNs. Here is some benchmarks (run on K-6, 300Mz, 196Mb, woody with 2.4 static kernel): ----------------------- Composite Score: 1.5490944211043924 FFT (1024): 0.9320711123270131 SOR (100x100): 2.9345683555877784 Monte Carlo : 0.31545607692513766 Sparse matmult (N=1000, nz=5000): 1.5183867235637665 LU (100x100): 0.9320711123270131 java.vendor: Blackdown Java-Linux Team java.version: 1.3.0 os.arch: i386 os.name: Linux os.version: 2.4.0 ------------------------- Composite Score: 20.387047891133058 FFT (1024): 16.492442016660515 SOR (100x100): 47.22928808701885 Monte Carlo : 5.907470353104544 Sparse matmult (N=1000, nz=5000): 12.10401868739443 LU (100x100): 16.492442016660515 java.vendor: IBM Corporation java.version: 1.3.0 os.arch: x86 os.name: Linux os.version: 2.4.0 --------------------------- Composite Score: 12.824212839241738 FFT (1024): 9.188725677439352 SOR (100x100): 25.722915423230514 Monte Carlo : 4.725976242808969 Sparse matmult (N=1000, nz=5000): 10.838846471712523 LU (100x100): 9.188725677439352 java.vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc. java.version: 1.3.0 os.arch: i386 os.name: Linux ------------------------------- Larger numbers mean faster. For more info in benchmark, see: http://math.nist.gov/scimark2/ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Vadim Kutsyy The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor PhD Student http://www.kutsyy.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]