2012/1/12 [email protected] <[email protected]> > 2012/1/12 Michał Bendowski <[email protected]>: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Back in the summer I asked on this mailing list if there's interest in > moving the JVM backend forward. Back then there was some enthusiasm, so I > got back to it when I had the chance, which unfortunately was a few months > later. The suggestion back then was to look into using JPype to integrate > more closely with Java-side code, and that's what I would like to do. > > Hi Michal, > > I'm afraid I'm only a pypy observer, so I can't help with your > specific queries. However, I want to say that I'm cheering for your > effort to get the JVM backend up and running again! I tried to look at > it a little a few months ago, but couldn't quite get it to translate > for me (not sure why, but I ran out of time to play with it). Someday > I'd like to see Jython integrate with PyPy somehow, but I'm fuzzy on > the how :) > > Anyway though I don't know what was suggested with respect to JPype > I'd like suggest a look at another Java integration point. JDK 7 was > recently released and it contains invokedynamic, which would be likely > to be a great help with some sorts of Java integration. Here are some > relevant links: > > http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292 > > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/invoke/package-summary.html > http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/ > https://wikis.oracle.com/display/mlvm/Home > > Again, I don't know the details about how JPype would be used exactly, > I just wanted to make sure you knew about invokedynamic. > > -Frank Wierzbicki > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev >
Hey Frank, I'm mostly an observerer on the JVM + PyPy front, but my understanding is JPype or the like would be to solve the issue of "how do we test this without compiling all of PyPy". Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero
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