February 01, 2011
Mark Wielaard: New GPG key.
Finally created a new GPG key using gnupg. The old one was a DSA/1024 bits one and 8 years old. The new one is a RSA/2048 bits one. I will use the new one in the future to sign any release tarballs I might create. pub 2048R/57816A6A 2011-01-29 Key f...
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February 01, 2011
Andrew Hughes: [SECURITY] IcedTea6 1.7.8, 1.8.5, 1.9.5 Released!.
We are pleased to announce a new set of security releases, IcedTea6 1.7.8, IcedTea6 1.8.5 and IcedTea6 1.9.5.
This update contains the following security updates:
The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 u...
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Developers
January 28, 2010
One of the more subtle aspects of javac syntax trees is that every tree node has position information associated with it. This information is used to identify the location of errors with the source text, and is used by IDEs when refactoring or refor...
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January 27, 2010
Though I've yet to receive my red pill or my blue pill, I cannot let this eve pass without a formal farewell to the company I've called home since college. Just the other day I came across my original Sun badge while cleaning out an old box:
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January 27, 2010
This article describes the capabilities of Sun Performance Library, a library of highly tuned and parallelized mathematical subroutines, and shows how it can be used in real applications to boost speed by a factor of four or more.
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January 26, 2010
I've finally managed to produce the Windows installer for Hudson, as originally raised by Håkan Reis. Please try it out and let me know how it works.
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January 26, 2010
While benchmarking a concurrent application on Linux I ran into an odd problem worth relating. Specifically, I'm using ubuntu 9.10 with linux kernel 2.6.31-1 running on a 1x4x2 Core2 i7-920 "Nehalem" (1 package; 4 cores/package; 2 logical processo...
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January 25, 2010
In November 2008 I
introduced IKVM.Reflection.Emit, today I'm introducing IKVM.Reflection. It superseded
IKVM.Reflection.Emit and also includes the ability to read managed assemblies. In
addition, I've also added many other features tha...
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January 25, 2010
One surprisingly tricky piece of the Java platform is the launcher, the set of C code that uses the JNI invocation API to get the JVM started and begin running the main class.
While conceptually simple, the launcher is complicated by straddling t...
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January 24, 2010
The BBC currently have a proposal before OfCom entitled Content Management on the HD FreeView platform. This proposes that OfCom allow them to compress the service information data and only provide the necessary Huffman table to those who license i...
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January 22, 2010
About two weeks ago I pushed the remaining changes (6894206, 6893081, 6829187, 6893268) for C2 invokedynamic support on x86 which were integrated into HotSpot 17 b07. Meanwhile HS17b07 has been integrated into JDK 7 b80 and the latter has been rel...
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January 22, 2010
This article introduces components that make up a storage service, details how to set up a proof of concept, and touches on real-world issues.
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