Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Weldon Washburn
On 5/24/05, Steve Blackburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dmitry Serebrennikov wrote: > > > > * The meat of the VM seems to be in the "spokes" that connect to the > > "VM core-hub". It seems that this is where it would make the most > > sense to mix components written in C with those written in Ja

Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Blackburn
Ulrich Kunitz wrote: Having read your MMTk papers, it appears to me that the required JAVA extensions look a little bit like parts of P/Invoke* of Microsoft's Common Language Runtime. Ugh. Those papers perhaps are not as clear as they could be. I've written a separate email saying a little m

RE: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Daniel John Frampton
-Original Message- From: Ulrich Kunitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2005 7:55 AM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Terminology etc > ... > But it might still be that C-implemented modules (particularly the GC) are faster than their J

vmmagic

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Blackburn
Perhaps it is worth saying a little more about vmmagic. The basic idea is to provide the necessary extensions to Java for the construction of a java-in-java virtual machine. These fall into two categories: pragmas (some for safety, some for performance) and unboxed types. In all cases, these ar

Re: Sun lashes out at open source J2SE

2005-05-24 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On May 24, 2005, at 6:57 AM, Steve Heath wrote: Isn't the message here: Gosling misunderstands the point of Harmony? Anyone reading to the bottom of the article will be put right. Just a quick question tho'. The article mentions portability and distribution licensing. Isn't another part of the

Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Robin Garner
> > Steve, if the spokes were in Java but the hub in C, would we then lose > > all of the aggressive inlining benefits that Java-in-Java solution can > > provide? > > I don't know. These are really interesting questions and ones I think > we need to hear lots of informed opinion on. My experi

Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Robin Garner
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 19:08 -0300, Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: > I think you dind't quite get how it works with MMtk. There are a few > "magic" classes that receive special treatment from the compiler and > translates method calls into pointer operations. This way MMtk can operate > under the same c

[arch] JFM modular structure was: Re: [arch] The Third Way : C/C++ and Java and lets go forward

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Lydick
> [Original Message] > From: Weldon Washburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Date: 5/24/05 4:51:16 PM > Subject: Re: [arch] The Third Way : C/C++ and Java and lets go forward > > On 5/23/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >=20 > > On May 23, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Steve Blackburn wrote

Re: [arch] The Third Way : C/C++ and Java and lets go forward

2005-05-24 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Added this list to wiki - http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/HarmonyArchitecture -- dims On 5/24/05, Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Weldon Washburn wrote: > > In response to Geir's request, below is a first cut at a simple > > high-level modular structure: > > > > 1.1) Execution Modules

Re: [arch] The Third Way : C/C++ and Java and lets go forward

2005-05-24 Thread Davanum Srinivas
updated wiki with this list - http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/HarmonyArchitecture On 5/24/05, Weldon Washburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/23/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On May 23, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Steve Blackburn wrote: > > > > >> Lets get moving. Comments? > >

Re: [arch] The Third Way : C/C++ and Java and lets go forward

2005-05-24 Thread Archie Cobbs
Weldon Washburn wrote: In response to Geir's request, below is a first cut at a simple high-level modular structure: 1.1) Execution Modules Execution Manager Execution Engine Code generator Profile Collector 1.2) GC 1.3) Threading/sync Manager

Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Rodrigo Kumpera
I think you dind't quite get how it works with MMtk. There are a few "magic" classes that receive special treatment from the compiler and translates method calls into pointer operations. This way MMtk can operate under the same condition of C code. I'm not sure how did you relate interface ca

Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Ulrich Kunitz
Steve, this "clarification of terminology" helped me a lot to understand your approach better. As Java-in-C camper I can even see now the advantages in the approach. But just let me add my 2 cents of pretty wild ideas. Having read your MMTk papers, it appears to me that the required JAVA extension

Re: [Harmony Wiki] Trivial Update of "People" by IanDarwin -- STOP

2005-05-24 Thread Davanum Srinivas
DONE :) On 5/24/05, Dan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please harmony-dev: > Stop > Stop > Stop sending me these notices! > Stop > Stop > -- Dan Cohen in Calgary > -- >

Re: [arch] The Third Way : C/C++ and Java and lets go forward

2005-05-24 Thread Weldon Washburn
On 5/23/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 23, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Steve Blackburn wrote: > > >> Lets get moving. Comments? > >> > > > > > > Respectfully, I think this would be a mistake. I think it would be > > a major error to start coding a VM core until there was mor

Re: [Harmony Wiki] Trivial Update of "People" by IanDarwin -- STOP

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Cohen
Please harmony-dev: Stop Stop Stop sending me these notices! Stop Stop -- Dan Cohen in Calgary -- On Tuesday 24 May 2005 15:26, Apache Wiki wrote: > Dear Wiki user, > > You h

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Re: [arch] The Third Way : C/C++ and Java and lets go forward

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Blackburn
Archie Cobbs wrote: That's a good idea... I've made a small start.. http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/JVM_Implementation_Ideas Excellent! --Steve

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Re: Sun lashes out at open source J2SE

2005-05-24 Thread Clinton Begin
Well said. Failure is easy to predict, and any average person can do it. It is more virtuous to fail having tried, than to succeed in predicting failure. Therein lies the difference between average people, and exceptional people. Clinton Begin http://www.ibatis.com On 5/24/05, Dan Lydick <[

Re: [Harmony Wiki] Trivial Update of "People" by RickyClarkson

2005-05-24 Thread Art - Arthit Suriyawongkul
On 5/24/05, Upayavira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When a separate mailing list has been set up for wiki changes, the > changes will go there, and you'll be able to (un)subscribe to that list > however you wish. Thank you. Art

Re: [Harmony Wiki] Trivial Update of "People" by RickyClarkson

2005-05-24 Thread Upayavira
Art - Arthit Suriyawongkul wrote: How to unsubscribe from wiki changes update ? I've already checked by "subscription list" in the wiki, it's empty. When a separate mailing list has been set up for wiki changes, the changes will go there, and you'll be able to (un)subscribe to that list howev

Re: Sun lashes out at open source J2SE

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Lydick
> [Original Message] > From: Mladen Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Date: 5/24/05 5:41:28 AM > Subject: Re: Sun lashes out at open source J2SE > > Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > Eh. > > > > Lets just keep to our purpose and message of compatibility and > > openness. > > When we move f

Re: [Harmony Wiki] Trivial Update of "People" by RickyClarkson

2005-05-24 Thread Art - Arthit Suriyawongkul
How to unsubscribe from wiki changes update ? I've already checked by "subscription list" in the wiki, it's empty. cheers, Art

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Re: [Harmony Wiki] Update of "People" by NicolasCannasse

2005-05-24 Thread Craig Blake
Heh, well, depends on the particular one I suppose. :-) I don't know that it's important to be notified of each new interested party. I imagine we will get many thousands of them (ok, maybe not, but we can hope anyways). Maybe having separate messages for edits is overkill. Is there some w

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Re: [Harmony Wiki] Update of "People" by NicolasCannasse

2005-05-24 Thread Matt Benson
--- Craig Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, please. Not sure if these are really valuable > anyways. What, "People"? :) -Matt > > Thanks, > Craig > > On May 24, 2005, at 8:33 AM, dan sinclair wrote: > > > Can these either be turned off or sent to another > list? They seem > > to gen

Re: [Harmony Wiki] Update of "People" by NicolasCannasse

2005-05-24 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
We'll switch to the -commits list. We want the general developer community to be watching this stream also. Thanks for the patience... geir On May 24, 2005, at 12:29 PM, Craig Blake wrote: Yeah, please. Not sure if these are really valuable anyways. Thanks, Craig On May 24, 2005, at 8:3

Re: [Harmony Wiki] Update of "People" by NicolasCannasse

2005-05-24 Thread Craig Blake
Yeah, please. Not sure if these are really valuable anyways. Thanks, Craig On May 24, 2005, at 8:33 AM, dan sinclair wrote: Can these either be turned off or sent to another list? They seem to generate a lot of email that isn't related to the topic at hand. Thanks, dan Dear Wiki user,

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Re: [Harmony Wiki] Update of "People" by RobGonzalez

2005-05-24 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Rob, Please move it...any experience is better than none :) -- dims On 5/24/05, Rob Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > good point, though i feel a bit outgunned by the other guys in that > list :) dalibor, mark wielaard, tom tromey...big guns in free java. > i just hacked on kaffe for a whil

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Re: [Harmony Wiki] Update of "People" by RobGonzalez

2005-05-24 Thread Matt Benson
--- Rob Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > good point, though i feel a bit outgunned by the > other guys in that > list :) dalibor, mark wielaard, tom tromey...big > guns in free java. > i just hacked on kaffe for a while, did some > debugging, build most of > a verifier, hacked on it as part

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Re: [Harmony Wiki] Update of "People" by RobGonzalez

2005-05-24 Thread Rob Gonzalez
good point, though i feel a bit outgunned by the other guys in that list :) dalibor, mark wielaard, tom tromey...big guns in free java. i just hacked on kaffe for a while, did some debugging, build most of a verifier, hacked on it as part of one of those proposals to add generics to java sort of

Re: [Harmony Wiki] Update of "People" by RobGonzalez

2005-05-24 Thread Matt Benson
--- Apache Wiki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + || Rob Gonzalez || rob.gonzalez AT gmail.com || > Kaffe, LSID || > Kaffe?--Rob, shouldn't you be under "Folks with prior VM Experience" then? -Matt > __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, a

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RE: [Harmony Wiki] Update of "People" by NicolasCannasse

2005-05-24 Thread dan sinclair
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Re: [arch] The Third Way : C/C++ and Java and lets go forward

2005-05-24 Thread Archie Cobbs
Peter Donald wrote: Are you suggesting we do it w/ JC? :) Is there a single copyright holder such I'll have to abstain from the voting on that :-) I am not sure why not :) I think that what Geir is proposing is that Harmony start from some exisitng codebase that is hacking on and rework

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People - Take #2

2005-05-24 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Folks, Please free to add yourself to the People page - http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/People. There is a new field where you can indicate your willingness to become a committer :) [We are still in the process of deciding the details of how/who/when/what of the bootstrapping process...but this is

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Re: Sun lashes out at open source J2SE

2005-05-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > Eh. > > Lets just keep to our purpose and message of compatibility and > openness. I'm familiar with getting misquoted, or pieces taken out of > context, and I hope this is the case here. Yeah. I understand where James Gosling is coming from: he is concerned about

Re: [arch] The Third Way : C/C++ and Java and lets go forward

2005-05-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Peter Donald wrote: > Hi, > > Steve Blackburn wrote: > >>> Lets get moving. Comments? >> >> >> Respectfully, I think this would be a mistake. I think it would be a >> major error to start coding a VM core until there was more clarity >> about what we are doing and what the core would require.

Re: Bootstrapping community (Re: [arch] The Third Way : C/C++ and Java and lets go forward)

2005-05-24 Thread Davanum Srinivas
we are talking cross-purposes...i can't keep up with all the traffic. Are u sure, you haven't missed a nugget of information here and there? Am not saying that you should not pick Jam. Pick jam, but there are others who are willing to help and willing to write code and have contributions to bring i

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Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Dalibor Topic
Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: There isn't much space for plugability of components beyond compile-link time. And I see no reason to have it otherwise. That depends on what you do, and what the VM can do. If, for example, the VM supports isolation, and running an application shows that it performs be

Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Rodrigo Kumpera
There isn't much space for plugability of components beyond compile-link time. And I see no reason to have it otherwise. Rodrigo On 5/24/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On May 24, 2005, at 4:49 AM, Dmitry Serebrennikov wrote: > > > > > * "OS interface" is perhaps one p

Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Juan Leyva Delgado
I've added this to the wiki and linked from the main page. - Original Message - From: "Steve Blackburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 8:05 AM Subject: Terminology etc I thought it might be helpful to clarify some terminology and a few technical issues. Correc

Re: Mailing list for Wiki Changes

2005-05-24 Thread Upayavira
Peter Donald wrote: Hi, Is there a mailing list where wiki changes are mailed out to? The wiki is configured for notifications to go to harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org, but are not getting through. Could someone add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the allow list for harmony-dev? Thanks, Upayavira

Re: Other interesting papers and research

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Blackburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They automatically build themselves simple JIT backends (by extracting fragments produced by the ahead of time compiler). This sounds like a great way to achieve portability while achiving better performance than a conventional interpreter. I guess it's a bit bet

Re: Sun lashes out at open source J2SE

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Heath
Isn't the message here: Gosling misunderstands the point of Harmony? Anyone reading to the bottom of the article will be put right. Just a quick question tho'. The article mentions portability and distribution licensing. Isn't another part of the point that an OSS virtual machine (with the backing

Re: Sun lashes out at open source J2SE

2005-05-24 Thread Mladen Turk
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Eh. Lets just keep to our purpose and message of compatibility and openness. When we move from 'enthusiasm' to the 'project' more and more 'doubts' will be seen :) Let's just play our song and let others have all the doubts they wish. Regards, Mladen.

Re: [arch] The Third Way : C/C++ and Java and lets go forward

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Heath
If I've missed someone saying the same as me, my apologies.. You *can* code a VM in 100% Java, it just takes some other technology (e.g. C or another JVM) to bootstrap the process. I'm just not sure how useful it will be to do this. That question aside, here's how you would do it from the ground-u

Re: Sun lashes out at open source J2SE

2005-05-24 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Eh. Lets just keep to our purpose and message of compatibility and openness. I'm familiar with getting misquoted, or pieces taken out of context, and I hope this is the case here. geir On May 23, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Brad Cox wrote: http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/2135503 Sun lashes

Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On May 24, 2005, at 4:49 AM, Dmitry Serebrennikov wrote: * "OS interface" is perhaps one place where some code can be shared. If C version can benefit from an OS abstraction layer for portability, then it seems like this layer could be shared between the C and the Java implementations.

Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Raffaele Castagno
2005/5/24, David Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, on the subject of terminology, when you say "scheduling", what do you > mean exactly? Are you talking about monitors and other sync issues or are > you talking about some kind of m:n thread scheduling? Or neither? :) > > I'm talking about t

Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread David Griffiths
Hi, on the subject of terminology, when you say "scheduling", what do you mean exactly? Are you talking about monitors and other sync issues or are you talking about some kind of m:n thread scheduling? Or neither? :) Cheers, Dave On 5/24/05, Steve Blackburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dmit

Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Blackburn
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Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Blackburn
Dmitry Serebrennikov wrote: A quick proposal: perhaps "VM bootstrap" as used below should really be something like "VM initialization," "VM init," or even "VM startup", since the word "bootstrap" is very specific and to me at least, indicates something more akin to the "VM bootloader" + "VM bo

RE: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Renaud BECHADE
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RE: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Renaud BECHADE
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Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Dmitry Serebrennikov
This is excellent! For one, I find Java-in-Java to be much clearer after this little set of definitions. A quick proposal: perhaps "VM bootstrap" as used below should really be something like "VM initialization," "VM init," or even "VM startup", since the word "bootstrap" is very specific and

Re: [arch] The Third Way : C/C++ and Java and lets go forward

2005-05-24 Thread Dalibor Topic
Archie Cobbs wrote: Nick Lothian wrote: According to http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~csc586a/Ass1.pdf JamVm lacks a bytecode verifier, too. Seems like most O/S VM's don't have one (including JC)... Gcj, leading the way, has two, or three by now :) Kaffe and CacaoJVM also have their own implementa

Re: Terminology etc

2005-05-24 Thread Raffaele Castagno
2005/5/24, Steve Blackburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I thought it might be helpful to clarify some terminology and a few > technical issues. Corrections/improvements/clarifications welcome ;-) > Scheduled for translation... Raffaele