Compiling kaffe classes

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 12, 1999, Santoro Corrado <csanto at alpha4.cdc.unict.it> wrote:

> The only porting of JDK that I've found in Internet does not use
> native threads, so each time a blocking call is issued, every thread
> is suspended :((((

Kaffe doesn't use native threads either.  There's a partial
implementation for GNU/Linux, but it doesn't work yet.  Anyway, Kaffe
takes care of context-switching for blocking calls, unless you issue
them yourself, from native code.

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