I've updated this document to subsume the translation details from
source to classfile. With the new single-file translation, this part,
which used to be its own whole document, is now a small-ish (and mostly
obvious) section at the end of the VM Model document.
On 4/21/2021 2:51 AM, John Rose wrote:
Brian and I hammered out a document this week that
captures what we think is emerging as our shared
understanding of how adapt the JVM to support
primitive classes.
It is still white-hot, not even off the press, but I think
it is worth looking it even in its unfinished state.
https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla-docs/blob/main/site/design-notes/state-of-valhalla/03-vm-model.md
<https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla-docs/blob/main/site/design-notes/state-of-valhalla/03-vm-model.md>
That is the JVM side, only. Most of it is already
prototyped in HotSpot, some is not.
I’ll let Brian speak for the valhalla-doc repository
as a whole, but I wanted to get this out there for
tomorrow’s meeting.
— John
