Sounds interesting. 2009/3/13 Andrew Cornwall <andrew.pack...@gmail.com>
> 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 <xiaofeng...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Egor Pasko <egor.pa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On the 0x56A day of Apache Harmony Xiao-Feng Li wrote: > > >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Egor Pasko <egor.pa...@gmail.com> > > 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 > > > -- Best Regards Sean, Xiao Xia Qiu
