SPECjvm2008

[Ralf Helbing]

I already asked this a long time ago on java.net. Based on the 
non-answers I got, I assumed SPECjvm2008 passed away quietly, but I read 
here and on gc-dev that some folks still use it. So I asked again at 
community.oracle.com/thread/3676919.

How can I run SPECjvm2008 on windows machines? It seems to get stuck in 
startup.sunflow when using 1.8.0_40 and possibly other 1.8 jvms under 
Linux and Windows. Windows runs also hang at any point during the 
startup runs, even with a 1.7 vm. There seems to be no support for Java 9.

Are there any updates for SPECjvm2008? What am I doing wrong? What magic 
is required?

thanks in advance