Re: [arch] Interpreter vs. JIT for Harmony VM

2005-10-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
What don't you emerge it? :) geir On Oct 2, 2005, at 7:17 PM, Steve Shih-wei Liao wrote: Good email thread! Lots of different opinions have been expressed. It seems there are valid reasons to support both JIT and interpreter in Harmony VM. Looking into the future, it seems the Harmony modu

Re: [arch] Interpreter vs. JIT for Harmony VM

2005-10-02 Thread Steve Shih-wei Liao
Good email thread! Lots of different opinions have been expressed. It seems there are valid reasons to support both JIT and interpreter in Harmony VM. Looking into the future, it seems the Harmony modular framework needs to allow both JIT and interpreter modules to be plugged in. Designing a VM mod

Re: [project policy] Author credit and attribution

2005-10-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Oct 2, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Leo Simons wrote: On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 12:04:55PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: [SNIP] Cool! I also like http://subversion.tigris.org/hacking.html which is basically the same kind of guide, only a little different in some corners. At apache, lots of proje

Re: [project policy] Author credit and attribution

2005-10-02 Thread Leo Simons
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 12:04:55PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > If you are looking for some guidelines for working together on code and > how to keep track of who wrote what when then I would recommend starting > out with our GNU Classpath Hacker Guide. Specifically chapter 7. > "Working on the co

Re: [project policy] Author credit and attribution

2005-10-02 Thread Leo Simons
I'm against author tags. I've had too many discussion about it in the past that I don't want to repeat though, so I won't bother ;) - LSD

Re: [vote] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-3 : Archie Cobbs' Contribution of JCVM

2005-10-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Oct 2, 2005, at 6:38 PM, Leo Simons wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:18:06PM -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Archie Cobbs has offered the JCVM project under the Apache License to Apache Harmony. It can be found here : http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-3 [X] +1 Accept the co

Re: [vote] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-5 : David Tanzer's proof-of-concept component model

2005-10-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Oct 2, 2005, at 6:37 PM, Leo Simons wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:49:09AM -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: David Tanzer has offered his proof-of-concept component model to the project. It can be found here : http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5 [X] +1 Accept the code into

Re: [vote] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-3 : Archie Cobbs' Contribution of JCVM

2005-10-02 Thread Leo Simons
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:18:06PM -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > Archie Cobbs has offered the JCVM project under the Apache License to > Apache Harmony. It can be found here : > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-3 > > [X] +1 Accept the code into the project sandbox > [ ] -1 D

Re: [vote] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-5 : David Tanzer's proof-of-concept component model

2005-10-02 Thread Leo Simons
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:49:09AM -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > David Tanzer has offered his proof-of-concept component model to the > project. It can be found here : > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5 > > [X] +1 Accept the code into the project > [ ] -1 Don't accept the

Re: RT: Escape analysis

2005-10-02 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Andy" == acoliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andy> A principle reason for {} scoping is that it allows register Andy> allocation ; however, it is practically useless in the above. 9/10 Andy> you're going to have to put "myvar" in at least method scope so that Andy> you can get at it outs

Re: RT: Escape analysis

2005-10-02 Thread Tim Ellison
What Brian fails to mention though is the speculative nature of such optimizations in the presence of polymorphism. Since Point and Component are not declared final/private they could at some point be subclassed to, say, not simply return x from getx() or return a new Point from getLocation(). Ob

Re: [project policy] Author credit and attribution

2005-10-02 Thread Archie Cobbs
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: The Apache Board has recommended that projects not employ author tags in their source code. The main motivation for this recommendation is to remove "territorial ownership" from code. My vote is to not have @author tags. The SVN log should be the definitive source

Re: [project policy] Author credit and attribution

2005-10-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Thanks mark for this link. This captures a lot about how I like to work. Some key things : "The main thing is to always discuss what you are up to on the mailinglist. Making sure that everybody knows who is working on what is the most important thing to make sure we cooperate most effec

Re: [project policy] Author credit and attribution

2005-10-02 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, If you are looking for some guidelines for working together on code and how to keep track of who wrote what when then I would recommend starting out with our GNU Classpath Hacker Guide. Specifically chapter 7. "Working on the code, Working with others". It explains that the main rule is to alw