{"id":804,"date":"2007-09-23T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rare-it.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/23\/scala-on-ubuntu\/"},"modified":"2007-09-23T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T14:05:09","slug":"scala-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2007\/09\/scala-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Scala on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I am experimenting (not more than that) with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scala-lang.org\/\">Scala language<\/a>, I needed to reinstall that in my Ubuntu 64-bits. The repositories only have version 2.3, whereas version 2.6 is already the final (as in: non-beta) version. Ubuntu is a fine OS, but it&#8217;s repositories are far from up-to-date (you need to modify your repositories-list to get Thunderbird 2, the regular repositories only have 1.5!).<br \/>\nSo I uninstalled the 2.3 version and downloaded the sources. The <a href=\"http:\/\/scala.sygneca.com\/faqs\/general\">Scala wiki<\/a> has excellent instructions on how to build the binaries, so I decided to give it a go. I tried with Java 5 and with Java 6, and to no surprise the Java 6 version was built faster and ran the tests faster.  Considerably faster: the Java 5 version ran all tests in 29 minutes, the Java 6 version in 23 minutes, about 20% faster.<\/p>\n<p>As I just installed Oracle 10g (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technology\/software\/products\/database\/oracle10g\/htdocs\/10201linx8664soft.html\">64 bits Linux version<\/a>) I will try to do some Scala-Oracle tests. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I am experimenting (not more than that) with the Scala language, I needed to reinstall that in my Ubuntu 64-bits. The repositories only have version 2.3, whereas version 2.6 is already the final (as in: non-beta) version. Ubuntu is a fine OS, but it&#8217;s repositories are far from up-to-date (you need to modify your <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2007\/09\/scala-on-ubuntu\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-linux","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}