Name: tb29552 Date: 10/15/98


Hi folks,

On the 1.1.6 release there were problems with the JIT. It went into
an infinite loop on some pieces of code (this was first noted by
cryptographic software providers as it seems the low-level bit
twiddling involved in crypto produced this problem).

SUN released an update to the JIT which solved the problem by not
operating in JIT mode on these pieces of code. This was apparent
from the performance on such code which was down to 25% of its former
speed.

It appears the JIT has not been altered since this update and these
perfomance issues remain. So our code runs (much) slower with jdk1.1.7
(pre Symantec days) than it did with jdk1.1.7.

Are there any plans to deal with this problem?

Related bug report:

 Bug Id: 4138234
 Synopsis: JIT VM Hangs when generating random bytes

(Review ID: 40101)
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