On 20/12/2003 18:04 Dave Cramer wrote:
> I'm actually starting to write one of these for postgres, and apparently
> there is another one in the works, from Thomas Hallgren.
>
> There is at least one significant architectural issue here to deal with
>
> Is it more desirable to have a single java vm and communicate via RPC,
> or some other mechanism? ie sockets, or ? The alternative is to
> instantiate a java vm for every connection, this could be onerous as
> there would be considerable overhead for each java vm.
I think anything other than a single jvm would be too much of a
performance hit.
> This will all go away as soon as java version 1.5 comes out but in the
> meantime, what does everyone think
>
> Comments are welcome.
On platforms built with GCC3.2+, GCJ might be an alternative.
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