Re: [drlvm][sablevm] Desing of Class Unloading Support

[Geir Magnusson Jr.]

Weldon Washburn wrote:


On 11/8/06, *Geir Magnusson Jr.* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:



    Weldon Washburn wrote:
     > On 11/7/06, Ivan Volosyuk < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
     >>
     >> On 07 Nov 2006 14:35:55 +0600, Egor Pasko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
     >> > > I already have one idea how to benefit from movable vtables.
     >
     >
     > There would have to be a very compelling argument for making vtables
     > movable.  Like a business workload that Harmony needs to run
    within the
     > next
     > 12 months.

    How would a business workload need this directly? 

 
That's the point.  I can't figure out any compelling story for moving 
vtables.  As far as I can tell, its over-engineering.   I would love to 
be proven wrong.

But isn't this simply an implementation detail of something that is 
important, namely the class unloading?

geir