Shark hg repositories are now in harmony.

[Gary Benson]

Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 09:55 Tue 10 Aug     , Gary Benson wrote:
> > Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > > My experiences of Shark suggest that production use is still
> > > very premature.
> > 
> > Really?  What problems are you seeing?
> 
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=348
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=371
> 
> These are from the last time I tried it; it wouldn't even build
> which, given it was regarded as alpha quality, doesn't seem all
> that surprising.

Ah, that was over a year ago, before all the TCK stabilization
work.  348 is a HotSpot version mismatch, I've seen it since in
icedtea6.  And 371, well, the TCK work was on x86_64, so that
platform at least should not segfault.

> I've not had chance to try it more recently, and I've no doubt
> it has improved since, but I still wouldn't think it's had
> enough testing to be recommended for production use.

Xerxes has been testing it extensively on ARM, and he knows of
people who are using it (I think).

> What's the current status of it on ppc?

I'm currently resurrecting my test machine (which got reinstalled)
to check an LLVM fix, so I should know Real Soon Now.  Though
does anybody use ppc (in the open source world) any more?

Cheers,
Gary

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