Thanks for the suggestions about what might be causing the problem with the
DEC Alpha version of Kaffe.  I would like to see Kaffe up and running on the
Alpha.  I will try to take another look at the code this weekend.

We have a number of multi processor machines in our lab: a 4-processor DEC
Alpha 4100, four dual-processor Pentium III PCs, and a dual-processor
pentium II machine. I would like to start pushing some of the issues related
to performance in Kaffe.  The profiling is one tool to help with that.
Assuming we can get Kaffe running on the Alpha, we can use Atom and DCPI
(DEC Continous Profiling Infrastructure) to further analyze the performance
of Kaffe and to identify areas of improvement.

-Will

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>  Thanks Will.
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> I suspect that threading/context switching may be broken, possibly
> due to a wrong SP_OFFSET.  You may want to try running developers/sp_offset.c
> and check whether the reported value is the same as the one used in
> config/alpha/osf/*.h
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> We still have to include your profiling update to 1.0.5.
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> 	- Godmar
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> > 
> > Here are some comments on experience I had producing an executable for
> > the Alpha running OSF (DEC unix).  I hope the feedback helps.
> > 
> > --Will Cohen 
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