I was previous under the impression that  allocating a single large block of
memory in Java
is faster (possibly much faster) than allocating lots of the smaller blocks
whose total storage space

I have a fairly large java application which is partly made up of a
whiteboard which you can use a freehand tool to draw on. Currently it
works by simply listening to mouse movements and recording each point
etc.

i have the problem that we are using the Native interface of Java and
have developed our own library to use.
Now if i start the jvm i get the errormessage :
wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

All,
I'm running quite a big java application on a solaris 8 machine.
All I want to know now is, how many java threads this application has.
Now, I know, that each LWP contains at least one java thread, so I can

Is it possible that the Linux implementarion of the j2sdk 1.4.2 VM is
noticably slower than the Windows version?
I wonder what the blackdown project should be good for. Are there faster
1.4+ VMs available for Linux?

Hello All;
 I have a problem where I am trying to verify that Hotspot is indeed
running on our JVM.  We have a 4CPU SparcV9 box and every time I
invoke java -version, I keep getting:

Hola!
Does anyone here know how Java threads map to Windows 2000 Fibers or
Threads? That is does each java thread map to a Windows Kernal Thread
1:1 or does a java thread map to a fiber which maps to a Win Kernal

I am using the WIN32 sun implementation from CLDC Version 1.1. I
compiled the simple helloworld.java but when i tried to open a serial
port i get the alert error. The exact code works fine on under a J2SE
VM running CDLC. I examined the Connection classes and it has a static

Does anyone know how to track down java processes simply dissappearing
on Solaris 8 (Java patches installed) with 1.4.1_01 and 1.4.2?
Should we setup shutdown hooks, or try to trap signals, etc?????
The problem appears after the app is running for quite some time - its a

how may i install java on macintosh - os 9.2 ?
on www.sun.com i only find java for os X :(
greetings

I just noticed that on the win32 version of jdk1.4.2, when it runs it
creates a hsperfdata_<username> directory in my temp directory with a small
numbered file. The file is 16k bytes, but I assume it can vary. Other VMs
running get a different number for their file. When the VM ...

The memory requirement for the program I am running increases with
time.
I used this call(Runtime.freeMemory) in my program  but surprisingly
the amount of memory returned by this call went on increasing when I