All, I received a private email from Steve Blackburn regarding mmtk.jar. There is a new forum for discussing vmmagic at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmmagic. It seems that vmmagic API won't be changed impulsively as there are several projects dependent on the current interface.
On 10/27/06, Xiao-Feng Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/27/06, Mikhail Fursov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/27/06, Weldon Washburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 10/26/06, Xiao-Feng Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, Mikhail, would you please educate me why this helper inlining work > > > depends on mmtk.jar? If only the unboxed classes are used, why can't > > > we write a simple replacement? That's just easy. > > > > > > Agreed its real easy to do. But I for one would like Harmony to stay as > > close to MMTk standard interfaces as possible. And the best way to do > > that > > is download their *.class files. Otherwise 3 years from now the world > > will > > have MMTk vmmagic and Harmony vmmagic that are not identical. > > > +1 > This also will attract MMTk developers to our project. As Robin said our > project has VM, compiler, classlib and everything else needed for J2SE in > the same place. So we are more flexible for experiments then any other open > Java platform I know. Agree. As long as we have API documentation available for helper developers, this is a good solution. Thanks, xiaofeng > -- > Mikhail Fursov > >
-- Weldon Washburn Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division
