Java HotSpot on mips64

[Kauser Jamal]

Hi,
 
Jonathan wrote:> There are no binary plugs for MIPS currently. Here are a couple> options:> > -- Hack out the dependencies. As of b38, only jmx.snmp and jsound are> affected, so for your purposes you might be able to get along> without them.> > -- Use the IcedTea workarounds [http://icedtea.classpath.org/].> IcedTea is based on OpenJDK 6 now, so there might be some> adaptation needed. Alternately, if you have no particular reason> to favor JDK7 over JDK6, you could just switch to OpenJDK 6.> > Which is best probably depends on your goal in doing the port. What> is your objective in getting it working?> > Beyond the matter of the binary plug, you mention that you want a> non-interpreter port. This will require substantial development. I> did a MIPS port, but it is interpreter-only so far. Another route is> IcedTea, which has a project called Shark that is integrating LLVM as> a compiler for OpenJDK. It's still in progress, but a bigger issue is> that there is no MIPS version of LLVM (last I heard, probably a year> ago).> > Please do let us know how it goes if you pursue a port to the Octeon!
 
Thanks a lot for the quick and useful reply, Jonathan.
 
I am developing benchmarks in Java for the measurement of memory, CPU and network throughput. That is why I need a good performing JVM, which therefore must include the HotSpot engine. 
 
The packages available on Debian (using aptitude) only provide the interpreter of the JVM for the mips architecture (as far as I have tried). Therefore, I decided to build the JVM from source code.
 
I have started work on building the IcedTea on the mips system. Let's see how it goes. I will inform everyone here about the outcome.
 
Kauser
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