Shark hg repositories are now in harmony.

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 11:12 Tue 10 Aug     , Gary Benson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Feel free to close them if they've been fixed.  I didn't think the
TCK work was done on IcedTea6 or 7, but on some random snapshot
from your own repository.

> > 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?
> 

Debian and Gentoo still have active ports.  Ubuntu also seems to have
one as far as I can see, and probably other distributions too.  Fedora
is the only one I've heard of dropping it, but then they never really
supported many architectures to begin with.  It's a shame because the
F11 DVD was useful recently to get my ppc box booting again.

The reason I ask is because ppc is the architecture where I could see
Shark being useful personally (currently using CACAO).  I don't really
see the point in using it on x86_64 other than for development.

> Cheers,
> Gary
> 
> -- 
> http://gbenson.net/

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