Hi Enrico, Enrico Migliore wrote: > My ultimate goal, is contributing to the development of a reliable JVM > which will run on the ARM platform, because I work in the embedded > systems area. I don't care if such a goal will be achieved in 2 or 3 > years, the only thing I care is not to waste my time in volunteering on > a thing that may be abandoned.
2 things: 1- SableVM has, from the beginning, put portability as one of its main objectives. This is why we went all the way to write an inline-threaded interpreter engine, as to get as much speed without sacrificing portability and requiring knowledge of intimate details of the target platform (assembly language, ABI, etc.). We also kept easier to port interpreters (switch and direct threaded). The switch-threaded interpreter is a pure ISO C interpreter, does not emit a single gcc warning with -pedantic on. The other two interpreters require gcc extensions (and/or a little inline-assembly code). 2- The SableVM project will not be abandoned any time soon. It is one of my main research vehicles, and I am a relatively young tenured professor at UQAM. Unlike many other open source JVMs which are primarily the project of students, SableVM is a project driven by a paid professor. You should chose to work on the project that you feel most comfortable to contribute to. I don't know of any open-source VM that would reject contributions (at least, without a good reason). :-) Have fun! Etienne -- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. http://www.info2.uqam.ca/~egagnon/ SableVM: http://www.sablevm.org/ SableCC: http://www.sablecc.org/
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