A Possibly Interesting Link

Michael Haupt mhaupt at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 11:26:49 UTC 2006


Hi,

On 4/6/06, Dan Ingalls <Dan at squeakland.org> wrote:
> Andreas replied...
> >On Windows with Firefox all I get is a page saying:
> >
> ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> ><jnlp spec="1.0+"
> >...
> ></jnlp>
>
> and Avi added...
>
> >Me too on Safari.  But I can just download the .jar file mentioned and run it, and it works fine.  Cool!
>
> I don't know what the problem is.  On my Mac, in Safari it downloads the jnlp file, then launches, and in Firefox, it launches straight off.

possibly, Java WebStart is not properly configured on the client
machines. My browser (Safari) also just displays the JNLP file's XML
syntax. Still, downloading the JAR directly works fine, and the
benchmarks yield the following (on a G4 Powerbook, 768 MB RAM, 1 GHz):

Squeak 3.8.9beta8: 59,925,093 bytecodes/sec; 3,361,587 sends/sec
Java 1.4.2_09: 5,759,539 bytecodes/sec; 332,188 sends/sec
Java 1.5.0_05: 5,657,708 bytecodes/sec; 331,012 sends/sec

Overheads (Java 1.4 over Squeak 3.8): 10.4 for bytecodes; 10.1 for sends.

It's interesting that the Java 5 VM appears to be slightly slower when
it comes to running Squeak than the 1.4 one, but that's something for
the VM hackers at Apple to consider. :-)

This is very nifty! Thanks for the work!

Best regards,

Michael Haupt



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