DRAFT PROPOSAL: Virtual Machine Interface

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 27/02/2008, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
>  Really cool proposal, and I think a lot projects in the open java
>  world could benefit from this change. E.g. OpenJDK-support by GCJ
>  could help Java in areas on Linux desktop where runtime based programs
>  have to fight hard for acceptance.
>
>
>  > 1. Become familiar with the VM interface by attempting to use it from
>  > a non-implementing VM
>
> Do you have any idea which JVM this would be? Any chance that you
>  maybe will choose GCJ/GIJ?
>
>  lg Clemens
>

Thanks for the positive feedback.  While I'd also like to see GCJ/GIJ
work with OpenJDK in the future, it's not an appropriate initial
target.  The criteria for such an initial target rests more on the VM
being quick and easy to modify for testing (GCJ can take an hour to
build) and on its existing interface use being relatively clean (GCJ
is still not fully integrated with GNU Classpath and maintains its own
local versions of some classes).  So while GCJ is a target for the
future, JamVM and/or JikesRVM seem like more obvious initial targets
for me.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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