Re: Matlab r2009a

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:31:28PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> The bigger obstacle, though, is that more and more of Matlab's
> functionality beyond the raw numerics is being moved to Java code. NetBSD's
> linux emulation was never really up to the task of running such a complex
> Java application - expect lots of threads locking up or busy-looping at
> 100% cpu. Moreover, ISTR netbsd-5 does not support the linux 2.6.x kernel
> api, including the kernel threads model.

I think I did manage to replace Matlab's built-in JRE with a standard
Linux one years ago.  Now we have a native NetBSD JDK/JRE -- so this is
probably worth a try.

Thor