Weldon Washburn, Geir Magnusson Jr. and I where discussing about the programming language in which to implement harmony and the coding conventions to use in the thread "[arch] Modular JVM component diagram". I rewrote one of the interfaces Weldon wrote so it conforms to the Java Coding Conventions (where possible - it is C code), which where only cosmetic changes. Geir said his biggest concerns about coding conventions is safety and clarity (and he gave some examples). There was no decision yet. [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200508.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alos in the thread "[arch] Modular JVM component diagram", Xiao-Feng Li, Ron Braithwaite, Rodrigo Kumpera and Tom Tromey where discussing about APR and POSIX as OS abstraction libraries. There is a wide agreement that this makes sense. Tim Ellison then explained how the portability library of the J9 VM (portlib) works and that it has some features which APR doesn't have. [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200508.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xiao-Feng Li started the thread "[arch] voluntary vs. preemptive suspension of Java threads" where he explains both models and gives a brief overview on the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches. Kazuyuki Shudo and Rodrigo Kumpera posted some more information about this topic. [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200509.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rana Dasgupta started a discussion about "[arch] VM/Classlibrary Interface ( VM Accessors )". He posted some initial thoughts about what these accessors are ("They will provide access to VM functionality not exposed through the public Java api"), how they could be implemented (i.e. JNI) and which problems might occur (security, ...). [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200509.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Weldon Washburn was responding to a posting by Mladen Turk about "light-weight native calls" where he lists some problems this approach migth have and asks how Mladen wants to solve them. Steven Gong asked how the VM/Classlibrary interface and VMAccessors are related, but he has not received an answer yet. [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200509.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200509.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, David. -- Read the archive of this series at http://deltalabs.at/ -- RSS feed: http://deltalabs.at/?q=taxonomy/term/8/0/feed -- David Tanzer, Haghofstr. 29, A-3352 St. Peter/Au, Austria/Europe http://deltalabs.at -- http://dev.guglhupf.net -- http://guglhupf.net My PGP Public Key: http://guglhupf.net/david/david.asc -- The Cranial Crusader Episode: Brain: Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Pinky: Well, I think so, Brain, but I can't memorize a whole opera in Yiddish.
