Etienne Gagnon wrote:
I am starting to have difficulty understanding Classpath's goals and
motivations.
When I proposed to add to Classpath some mechanism to allow it to be
customized to each VM, I was told that it would be a heresy to encode
any VM-specific thing into Classpath, as the vision was: a single
Classpath installation would be shared by many VMs on a single system,
e.g. common class libraries, common JNI libraries, etc.
Now, what you are proposing is that JNI libraries would be compiled
specifically for each VM. What have I missed?
That I do not speak for Classpath, and that different people have
different goals and opinions.
Personally, I don't see much point in "common class libraries, common
JNI libraries". It might be neat, but:
(a) it complicates getting good performance, and
(b) coordinating Classpath and VM releses would be too difficult.
Yes, it's more elegant to install a single copy of Classpath, but
GCJ is not going to use the "system installation" of Classpath, and
I wouldn't expect others to do so either.
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--Per Bothner
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