Re: [arch] Modular JVM component diagram

2005-08-27 Thread Weldon Washburn
On 8/27/05, David Tanzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some questions: Are these the actual headers we program against? If > yes, this would assume we use C or C++ to implement the VM, or at least > these components, right? The purpose of the text files is to solicit comment on the APIs they contain

Re: [arch] JIT interfaces

2005-08-27 Thread Michael Hind
Steve Liao wrote: > I was just wondering if a unified format (more than a unified interface) > makes sense for Harmony. One advantage is to allow GC to enumerate > without relying on JIT. Any other benefit? Of course, both ways could work. At a high level, the stack maps are a data structure cre

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2005-08-27 Thread David Tanzer
Steve Liao started the thread "[arch] JIT interfaces" where he asks how Harmony wants to solve some basic JIT/VM interfacing. As an example he mentions stack maps - at Intel they cache these stack maps in the VM, but the JIT controls their interpretation. The other option would be that the JIT stor

Re: [arch] Modular JVM component diagram

2005-08-27 Thread David Tanzer
Some questions: Are these the actual headers we program against? If yes, this would assume we use C or C++ to implement the VM, or at least these components, right? Sorry if I'm asking something which has already been resolved, but I was just searching the mailing list archives and I found much