292 Rocks, Core Smalltalk running thanks to all

2011-04-11 Thread Mark Roos
I know you are all working hard to bring 292 to a release so I thought I would take a moment to thank you all for your work and to tell you how much that work helped with our Smalltalk porting. We have about 500K lines of Smalltalk code which we want to run on the JVM. The approach we picked

Re: Coming change to dropArguments?

2011-04-11 Thread Mark Roos
John wrote If the desired MethodType is available, you can also use MethodType.parameterList to get a List of the parameters (at O(1) likely allocation cost). From thatlist you can also subList to specify the desired dropped parameter types. Interesting thought. Upon

Re: 292 Rocks, Core Smalltalk running thanks to all

2011-04-11 Thread Christian Thalinger
On Apr 11, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Mark Roos wrote: I know you are all working hard to bring 292 to a release so I thought I would take a moment to thank you all for your work and to tell you how much that work helped with our Smalltalk porting. We have about 500K lines of Smalltalk code

Re: Review Request: Zero JSR 292 support

2011-04-11 Thread Gary Benson
Christian Thalinger wrote: On Apr 5, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Gary Benson wrote: Christian Thalinger wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Gary Benson wrote: John Rose wrote: On Apr 1, 2011, at 7:33 AM, Gary Benson wrote: This webrev adds support for JSR 292 to Zero:

Re: Review Request: Zero JSR 292 support

2011-04-11 Thread Christian Thalinger
On Apr 11, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Gary Benson wrote: Christian Thalinger wrote: On Apr 5, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Gary Benson wrote: Christian Thalinger wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Gary Benson wrote: John Rose wrote: On Apr 1, 2011, at 7:33 AM, Gary Benson wrote: This webrev adds support for

Re: 292 Rocks, Core Smalltalk running thanks to all

2011-04-11 Thread Mark Roos
Hi Christian, I've always liked your enthusiasm So far we are running on OSX and the latest win7 build. both work fine. Now that we have the core running we need to move to java.lang.invoke ( which should be trivial). What is it you like to look at? Once we make the move I could package up

Re: More indy perf anecdotes

2011-04-11 Thread John Rose
In addition to the actual code of the gwt test there is currently a poll-based test for call site mutation. Eventually this will be replaced by a notification with zero fast path overhead. -- John (on my iPhone) On Apr 11, 2011, at 2:31 PM, RĂ©mi Forax fo...@univ-mlv.fr wrote: Bottom line,