From: Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> On Monday 12 January 2004 21:28, Patrik Reali wrote:
> > * class layout (do we really need this? I guess the fields are allocated in
> > the row as they are declared)
>
> Some VMs may group all reference fields together, or try to "pack" fields
> smaller than 16 bits (boolean, byte, short, char).

I remember Project Monty (by Lars Bak, Sun) developed such a JVM for
CLDC profile.  The JVM became CLDC HotSpot later.

And there were several researches focusing on layout of object fields.
One of them might be based on SableVM.

  Kazuyuki Shudo        [EMAIL PROTECTED]       http://www.shudo.net/


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