[Fwd: Proposal: Weekly Classpath meetings on irc (Thu 17:00 UTC)]

2005-10-05 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi all, For those that integrate GNU Classpath into the various development frameworks the following might be interesting. Normally you should feel free to bring up any integration issue on the mailinglist. But if you wish to ask a a quick status update question please join us on irc. Cheers, Ma

Re: opinions on structure packing in C?

2005-10-05 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:04 AM, Robin Garner wrote: So how do people deal with this these days? I know fashions change, and I haven't done C in anger for > 6 years... (I still have the shakes when looking at it - I'm past the screaming stage...) "Premature optimization is the root of all ev

Re: opinions on structure packing in C?

2005-10-05 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:44 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I'm working with Dan's bootVM to get to run on Windows, and have been thinking about the use of -fpack-struct vs #pragm pack() vs just not packing and writing code that is a little slower, and a little more I'd disput

Re: RT: Escape analysis

2005-10-05 Thread John Whaley
On 10/3/05, Robin Garner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Florian Weimer wrote: > > The conclusion reached in the OOPSLA paper referred to (Choi et al 1999) > is that stack allocation produced a relatively insignificant speedup, > but that locking optimizations for objects that don't escape thread > co

Re: opinions on structure packing in C?

2005-10-05 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Dan" == Dan Lydick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> It has been my experience that permitting structures to remain Dan> _unpacked_ produces compatibility problems. Dan> My use of GCC 3.3.2 on Solaris 9 seemed to confirm Dan> this when all library and system calls worked fine Dan> except fo

Re: opinions on structure packing in C?

2005-10-05 Thread Dan Lydick
> [Original Message] > From: Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Date: 10/5/05 8:45:23 AM > Subject: Re: opinions on structure packing in C? > > Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > I'm working with Dan's bootVM to get to run on Windows, and have been > > thinking about the use of -fpack-struct vs

Re: [vote] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-6 : Daniel Lydick's contribution of a new JVM

2005-10-05 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Am not sure i replied before..+1 -- dims On 10/5/05, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leo Simons wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:45:54PM -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > > >>Daniel Lydick has offered his "BootJVM" project, a JVM he wrote, > >>under the Apache License to Ap

Re: [vote] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-6 : Daniel Lydick's contribution of a new JVM

2005-10-05 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Leo Simons wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:45:54PM -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Daniel Lydick has offered his "BootJVM" project, a JVM he wrote, under the Apache License to Apache Harmony. It can be found here : http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6 I'm working hard to get

Re: opinions on structure packing in C?

2005-10-05 Thread Archie Cobbs
Robin Garner wrote: So how do people deal with this these days? I know fashions change, and I haven't done C in anger for > 6 years... (I still have the shakes when looking at it - I'm past the screaming stage...) "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." Agreed.. it's way too earl

Re: opinions on structure packing in C?

2005-10-05 Thread Tim Ellison
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > I'm working with Dan's bootVM to get to run on Windows, and have been > thinking about the use of -fpack-struct vs #pragm pack() vs just not > packing and writing code that is a little slower, and a little more I'd dispute that packing always produces faster code, bu

Re: opinions on structure packing in C?

2005-10-05 Thread Robin Garner
> So how do people deal with this these days? I know fashions change, > and I haven't done C in anger for > 6 years... (I still have the > shakes when looking at it - I'm past the screaming stage...) "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." If struct packing produces a measurable spee

opinions on structure packing in C?

2005-10-05 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
I'm working with Dan's bootVM to get to run on Windows, and have been thinking about the use of -fpack-struct vs #pragm pack() vs just not packing and writing code that is a little slower, and a little more verbose, but seemingly more robust and maintainable due to less information about co

Re: [vote] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-6 : Daniel Lydick's contribution of a new JVM

2005-10-05 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Oct 5, 2005, at 5:39 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: [X] +1 Accept the code into the project sandbox again, subject to the PPMC having satisfactory answers to the Harmony contribution checklist. AFAIK we have no visibility of that list until it is completed. That's correct. Having that inform

Re: [vote] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-6 : Daniel Lydick's contribution of a new JVM

2005-10-05 Thread Tim Ellison
[X] +1 Accept the code into the project sandbox again, subject to the PPMC having satisfactory answers to the Harmony contribution checklist. AFAIK we have no visibility of that list until it is completed. Regards, Tim Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > Daniel Lydick has offered his "BootJVM" proje

Re: [vote] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-6 : Daniel Lydick's contribution of a new JVM

2005-10-05 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:45:54PM -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > Daniel Lydick has offered his "BootJVM" project, a JVM he wrote, > under the Apache License to Apache Harmony. It can be found here : > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6 > > I'm working hard to get my head ar