On Jul 7, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Per Bothner wrote: > Does that mean HotSpot can directly execute Pack200 files? > Or could be made to do so without excessive work?
No, the UNSIGNED5 format is just a variable-length 32-bit int encoding used in most places by pack. > Pack200 is complicated to both produce and decode, and the > Java api is oriented towards batch conversion to/from a > jar file. Pack is a serialization format for a group of classes and their methods. It is not tied strongly to JAR, and could skip the JAR step for loading into the JVM. A strength-reduced version of the format (sort of like zip -1) would not be hard to decode. Re-thinking the code pipeline from disk to JIT requires a lot of work, but (and this is all I'm suggesting) Pack could play a role in that pipeline. -- John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jvm-languages+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
