IcedTea on ARM

[Christian Thalinger]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 13:11 +0100, Jan Pannecoeck wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently working with an ARM9261 with OpenEmbedded running on
> it, linux kernel version 2.6.22. I'm currently using JamVM as
> virtual machine but I'm thinking about using IcedTea maybe, because
> performancy issues. Now my question is, if the currently version of
> IcedTea could work properly on an ARM with OpenEmbedded linux and
> also can be build for the ARM of course. And since the main problems
> are performancy issues, I'm wondering if IcedTea is faster than JamVM?
>  
> The IcedTea website tells me that IcedTea is only been build on x86,
> x86_64, pcc and ppc64 architectures, but I hope that someone can give
> me
> some more information about IcedTea running on an ARM.

Since it's for performance reasons, I doubt you will be happy with
HotSpot Zero in IcedTea.  And as Shark isn't there yet, your only
possibility is to try CACAO as VM in IcedTea[1].  Since then I have
added some configure switches to IcedTea which download and build CACAO
for you.  But you have to build it natively...

[1] http://www.advogato.org/person/twisti/diary/11.html

- Christian