Re: [arch] VM Candidate : JC @ http://jcvm.sourceforge.net/

2005-05-18 Thread Royce Ausburn
Tom, Thanks! =) Doesn't compile on my powerbook, but it doesn't look like it would be *too* hard to get working (but I've no real coding experience (CS student) and have only read the win32/* code) Will it? --Royce On 18/05/2005, at 4:27 PM, Tom van Dijck wrote: Hi, I've had some time today to

Re: Against using Java to implement Java (Was: Java)

2005-05-18 Thread Royce Ausburn
I think it's too slow to have the overhead of a function call for every object allocation. This is the cost of modularization. I doubt any of the mainstream JVMs you are competing with do this. Given how java (Apple JVM on OS X tiger) seems to allocate a chunk of memory when you first load it a

Re: Stop this framework/modularity madness!

2005-05-17 Thread Royce Ausburn
Ack - Sorry about the incomplete mail. On 17/05/2005, at 3:58 AM, Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: This must not be the focus until required, so no JIT plugable layer until someone tries to write another JIT for Harmony (emphasis on another). In my experience, delaying the 'modular design' of a system cause