Re: Are java.lang classes better served by the JVM?

2012-09-30 Thread Mark Roos
>From Charles Have you taken a look at jnr-x86asm? No, but I just bookmarked it to talk a look. I had been looking at JNA as a way to connect to native libs. Is there some way for me to locate/search for the jRuby native handler code that uses jnr? I was looking at LLVM with the thought of

hg: mlvm/mlvm/hotspot: anno-stable.patch: working

2012-09-30 Thread john . r . rose
Changeset: c7d00d950bdb Author:jrose Date: 2012-09-30 21:35 -0700 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/hotspot/rev/c7d00d950bdb anno-stable.patch: working ! anno-stable.patch ___ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net http:

Re: Are java.lang classes better served by the JVM?

2012-09-30 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Mark Roos wrote: > But it does bring to mind a comment > John Rose made at the > 2010 JVMLS about how it would be cool if a method handle could refer to some > native code. It seems > like this would get at least some of what you want. Actually, I don't think I e

Re: Are java.lang classes better served by the JVM?

2012-09-30 Thread Mark Roos
Charles made an interesting comment Now what we need is a way to inject new intrinsics into the JVM, so I can make an asm version of something and tell hotspot "no no, use this, not the JVM bytecode" :) Of course unless one wants to take on the efforts of Zero Assembler or Grail and write one's o