Just wanted to encourage people to write their ideas up on the Wiki - only Oliver has done it so far and there is a deadline.
Thanks, Sian 2009/3/12 Andrew Cornwall <[email protected]>: > Is there any desire to extend VMTT? > > - add a real assembly format (jsr :label or something like that, instead of > jsr -11.) (Does jasm do this, and if so could we use their format?) > - add flexibility for bad classes > - specifying the padding for tableswitch/lookupswitch > - allow double/long constantpool entries without subsequent constant > pool entry > - mixed asm and bin in methods > - allow insertion of binary data at other places (eg constant pool) > - fix bugs > > Just some thoughts... > > Andrew Jr. > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Xiao-Feng Li <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Egor Pasko <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On the 0x56A day of Apache Harmony Xiao-Feng Li wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Egor Pasko <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On the 0x56A day of Apache Harmony Xiao-Feng Li wrote: >> >>>> This is interesting. Project ideas related to this include: >> >>>> >> >>>> 1. Make Apache Harmony support Google Android applications. (Android >> >>>> on Harmony should be much faster with the much more powerful JIT and >> >>>> GC). >> >>> >> >>> Do you mean replacing Dalvik on top of the Android stack or making a >> >>> system that works on a common desktop? >> >> >> >> Something like that... :) At the moment I prefer the second approach: >> >> to make Harmony ready for Android applications on desktop. The first >> >> approach probably should be a project of Google Android. >> > >> > sounds like a nice idea :) though I cannot imagine how much work is >> > required to make this happen.. >> >> Yes, there are lots of work in it. Well only when somebody really >> starts thinking about it, can we gradually get some good solution. To >> replace Dalvik with Harmony in Android stack might be easier. In any >> case, it requires to run Android on top of a desktop OS, with full >> libc and utils, because that's Harmony needs. That's why I have the >> second project idea, to reduce Harmony into a very concise version >> that requires only minimum OS supports, as minimum as Android >> requires. :) >> >> Thanks, >> xiaofeng >> >> > -- >> > Egor Pasko >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Managed Runtime Technology Center, Intel >> > -- Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU
