[java-dev] Performance differences between Windows & Mac OS Jit/Java

Just to add.
Historically the JVM implementation for windows has always been  
higher performance than the OS X JVM so it is not so surprising.
Like josh said though some sort of queing mechanism might be worth  
investigating regardless.
T

On Jan 22, 2008, at 08:48 AM, Joshua Kit Clayton wrote:

>
> On Jan 22, 2008, at 5:55 AM, Peter Castine wrote:
>
>> Finally, before someone asks "Why not just use Windows?" the  
>> computer needs to run other processes as well as our standalone,  
>> and Mac OS is really what we need.
>
> Perhaps you can use VMWare or Parallels? i.e. run Windows under OS X.
>
> I don't have time to investigate your patch/code, but the JVMs are  
> different. There may be some JVM settings which are by default used  
> on windows, but not OS X, or vice versa.
>
> One other thing. Make sure you are not stalling in the main thread  
> while you don't need to be. One example is to copy your matrix to  
> send, add it to a queue which is serviced by your networking thread  
> (I assume you're using a separate thread for networking, which is  
> *essential*).
>
> -Joshua
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