Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:37:45 -0500
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 11:35:04 -0800
From: geh@mda.ca (Graeme Hiebert)
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To: java-linux@java.blackdown.org
Subject: Re: Performance issues
Cc: mramsey@as.arizona.edu
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Netscape has an undocumented way to act as a java interpreter.  The
syntax is

   netscape -java <normal "java" command-line arguments>

To compile using netscape, then, you would

   1) Set CLASSPATH environment variable to something like

         /path/to/netscape/moz2_0.zip:/path/to/jdk/lib/classes.zip:.

   2) Execute

         netscape -java -ms8m sun.tools.javac.Main MyClass.java

To make this simple, you could probably download JDK for linux,
and rename its jdk/bin/i586/java to java.bak, and replace it with
a script:

   #/bin/bash

   CLASSPATH=/path/to/netscape/moz2_0.zip:${CLASSPATH}
   /path/to/netscape/netscape -java "$@"

I have not tested this, but I believe it would work.  This would
also allow you to run appletviewer, etc., with Netscape as an
interpreter instead of JDK's java.

   -g
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> Neil Archibald wrote:
> > 
> > I'm sad to bring this up, but I've quit using the Linux java kit, (kind
> > of) on the basis that using the netscape hack way of compiling java
> > programs against the linux's try1 classes.zip IS ACTUALLY faster. Even
> > though I barely have enough RAM to run netscape, I get a average compile
> > time for 11 seconds under netscape compared to 28 seconds under javac.
> > So, now I have javac aliased to run netscape with the hack.
> 
> Can you explain how to compile Java using Netscape. I've never heard
> of this.
>  
> --Marshall--
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