Re: comment from James Gosling on multi-language VM

2015-04-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:19 PM, John Rose john.r.r...@oracle.com wrote: Has anyone looked at the possibility of compiling languages other than Java to the Java bytecodes? xRuby compiles early Ruby to Java Bytecode https://code.google.com/p/xruby/ Jabaco compiles Visual Basic style source to

Re: New Ruby impl based on PyPy...early perf numbers ahead of JRuby

2013-02-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter head...@headius.comwrote: Anyway, I thought I'd share these numbers, since they show we've got more work to do to get JVM-based dynamic languages competitive with purpose-built dynamic language VMs. I'm not really *worried* per se, since

Re: Forkable OpenJDK...is it madness?

2011-11-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 05:12, Charles Oliver Nutter head...@headius.com wrote: And JRuby's not alone. Dalvik supports forking, which is a large part of why it's able to boot small Java applications so darn quickly; the base Dalvik process has already initialized a bunch of VM and Android

Re: plea for a Windows build

2011-08-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 18:11, Dalibor Topic dalibor.to...@oracle.com wrote: If you want the bleeding edge of hostpot Speaking of bleeding edge. Is there an ETA for java7 update 1 ? You know, to shut up all those Java 7 is broken, don't use it naysayers... TIA... FC

Re: plea for a Windows build

2011-08-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 05:31, Ismael Juma mli...@juma.me.uk wrote: I read in an Eclipse status update that it would be out in October (Eclipse uses Lucene for its Help component and suffers from the highly publicised bug). Not sure if that is the official position though. Thanks for the

Re: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ seems to be offline

2011-06-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 17:03, Stephen Bannasch stephen.banna...@deanbrook.org wrote: -I http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ It was part of a bigger incident that affected www.java.net, www.kenai.com, and openoffice.org. http://twitter.com/fcassia/statuses/86057239282073601 FC

FYI: NetRexx (Rexx-on-JVM) is now open source

2011-06-09 Thread fernando cassia
I´m a lurker here... so sorry for making this my first post. In case you guys haven´t heard, an old but undeservedly unknown programming language (sic), IBM NetRexx (Rexx running on the JVM) is now open source. Since yesterday, at least.

Oracle Basic (Powerobjects), Basic-like language running on the JVM, ever ?

2010-04-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi there, 1) I´ve read that the goal of this JSR and project is to bring other languages to the JVM with the same performance as java bytecode. Would this be like what Mono currently has?, I mean, the ability to develop third party add-ons that interface with the JVM engine, thus allowing for