openJDK no threads OS

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Dec 19 06:12:00 PST 2012


On 18/12/2012 22:02, John Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I was wondering is it possible to port openJDK to operating system 
> which doesn't have thread support in kernel?
>
>
> With kind regards,
> John
The original "classic VM" (prior to HotSpot) supported green threads, I 
think some of the embedded VMs may still have something similar. So I 
think the answer to your question is "in theory, yes" although it would 
be a massive undertaking.

-Alan.


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