JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-23 Thread Andy Walter
Hello Classpath-Developers, at aicas GmbH (http://www.aicas.com), we are developing a Java Virtual Machine, JamaicaVM, that comes with its own (clean room) implementation of the standard classes. Since this is redundant work (and, as I understand it, exactely the reason why the GNU Classpath pr

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-23 Thread Brian Jones
Andy Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The easiest way would be if we could get write access to the repository, so > that we can provide code and bug fixes directly. (Of course, we intend to > give something back Classpath). Providing the code to a maintainer would be > okay for us, too. We

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-24 Thread Chris Gray
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Andy Walter wrote: > * One thing that shouldn't be unmentioned: Unlike the rest of our current > standard classes, the AWT implementation is not completely written by > ourselves, but based on Acunia's Wonka/Rudolph. Which reminds me: we are happy to make Rudolph available

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-24 Thread Andy Walter
On Thursday 24 October 2002 02:53, Brian Jones wrote: > Andy Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We're rather free with the CVS access. Fine. > We haven't spent a great deal of time optimizing the library for speed > or memory usage. No problem. It is, of course, important to us, so we will i

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-24 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 18:21, Andy Walter wrote: > at aicas GmbH (http://www.aicas.com), we are developing a Java Virtual > Machine, JamaicaVM, that comes with its own (clean room) implementation of > the standard classes. Since this is redundant work (and, as I understand it, > exactely the

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-24 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Chris, On Thursday 24 October 2002 09:01, Chris Gray wrote: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Andy Walter wrote: > > * One thing that shouldn't be unmentioned: Unlike the rest of our current > > standard classes, the AWT implementation is not completely written by > > ourselves, but based on Acunia's Wonk

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-25 Thread Brian Jones
Andy Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've seen that the Classpath AWT implementation uses peers. This has > advantages on some targets, but is not very helpful on targets > without any Window System at all. I personally like the idea of > having two different AWT implementations (at aicas we

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-25 Thread Brian Jones
Andy Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know about NSPR and APR, but a library is not exactly what > we wanted to use (because of code size and performance > matters). What we currently have is a general set of macros for > socket and file i/o access (and other evil functions such as > m

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-26 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 19:29, Andy Walter wrote: > You'll probably happy to read that our testsuite is based on Mauve. :-) > We have added some tests and included a small script-driven framework for our > nightly builds. Currently, we are not happy with the generated statistics > yet, which

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-26 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Mark, On Thursday 24 October 2002 18:03, Mark Wielaard wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 18:21, Andy Walter wrote: > > [...] we are very interested in joining your project. > > That would be very nice! I'm glad to see that we are welcome here. > For license questions you will have to contact [

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-26 Thread Andy Walter
On Saturday 26 October 2002 06:22, Brian Jones wrote: > Hey, I guess this answers that nagging question I had about how a JVM > is supposed to deal with native code memory allocation being somewhat > outside of the garbage collector arrangement in use... :-) Of course, the garbage collector can n

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-26 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Mark, On Saturday 26 October 2002 13:26, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > We also want to set something like that up for Kissme (or sablevm or > Orp) and mauve. So that would be a very nice contribution. Then we can > more easily compare what are VM issues and what are library issues. I > have already

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-26 Thread Brian Jones
Andy Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, I managed to convince the rest of aicas that at least > merging the API would be a great thing to everybody. I'm afraid more > is not possible at the moment. And that's a really big deal in and of itself sometimes. > > So I would ask you kindly

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-27 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 16:14, Andy Walter wrote: > > What do you do with your statistics? We use CVS to store the detailed report > and use a brief summary as log message. We use the CVS facilities of sending > an eMail with the log message to all developers. Not enough :( I just make sure