nickyv@ireland 2000-04-14

The swingmark benchmarks suffers serious performance degredation when run
using the default java vm bundled with solaris581

Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8.1 s81_10 July 2001
# java -version
java version "1.2.2"
Solaris VM (build Solaris_JDK_1.2.2_05a, native threads, sunwjit)


this mainly effect the 4m architecture but also effect the ultra sparc processors. results from tests can be viewed at http://perfwww.ireland//cgi-bin/builds581/dashboard.cgi?BUILD=s81_10&PAGENAME=swing

this page compares build10 of solaris581 and solaris8 fcs.
The jvm which shipped with solaris8 is
java version "1.2.1"
Solaris VM (build Solaris_JDK_1.2.1_04c, native threads, sunwjit)