Right. I was mainly wondering if it was worth prototyping a GC in the jikes/RVM infrastructure. On the one hand I could do comparative measurement. On the other I can get measurements of existing contributed GCs on modern machines.
I pulled the tree using mercurial (they seem to have switched). I'm not convinced that it's maintained. On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:36 PM, William ML Leslie < [email protected]> wrote: > On 17 October 2013 14:10, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lots of benchmarks using this infrastructure, many of them old by now. > Might > > be interesting to re-run on newer hardware. > > > > Does anyone know the status of jikes/RVM? Is it still runnable? Has it > been > > maintained? > > I sit opposite an inactive core contributor, so I asked him. > > It's still pretty active in the research community, a fork (which?) of > the compiler generates good code (he claims it outperforms the latest > hotspot), MMTk rocks &c. But it moves pretty slowly in terms of > infrastructure; the website mentions that it doesn't support "64 bit > Intel" (as much as I wish that IA64 was a thing I think they mean > x86_64, is worth a try) and I don't even know if they support Java 6. > > I've come to work today without the disk that has my JikesRVM build > environment on it, otherwise I'd let you know with more confidence; > that said I haven't given it an "svn up" in at least three years. > > -- > William Leslie > > Notice: > Likely much of this email is, by the nature of copyright, covered > under copyright law. You absolutely may reproduce any part of it in > accordance with the copyright law of the nation you are reading this > in. Any attempt to deny you those rights would be illegal without > prior contractual agreement. > _______________________________________________ > bitc-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev > >
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