I think these summaries are great David, keep it up! [ ...though it does make the little devil inside me want to start messing with your brain, to see if you can summarize wads of code, deliberately contradictory statements, etc. :-) ]
Regards, Tim David Tanzer wrote: > 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 > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
