On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:54 +0100, Tim Ellison wrote: > I think these summaries are great David, keep it up!
Thank you, it's good to hear that. I really appreciate any feedback, so if some of you might have any suggestions what I could change (go more/less into detail, or whatever) please tell me. > [ ...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. :-) ] Well, do so, let's see what I can take ;-) Regards, David. > 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 > > > -- 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 -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if we have nothing to fear but fear itself, then why does Elenor Roosevelt wear that spooky mask?
