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		headius on Dec 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Massive Ruby speed boost with JRuby and Java 7. Perhaps IcedTea (RedHat's fork of OpenJDK) has included a 64-bit plugin. I did not think OpenJDK/OracleJDK had done so yet...but I'd love to be proven wrong.

sciurus on Dec 20, 2011 [–]

Like I said, libnpjp2.so is a 64-bit plugin from Sun/Oracle. It's been available from Sun since Java 1.6.0_12 in 2008. It's still available in Java 1.6.0_29; I just downloaded and installed it from Oracle last week. I have not looked into support for Java 7 or operating systems besides linux.

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