Status of non-Hotspot VMs and Shark

[Stefan Ring]

>> > There is a new upstream cacao 1.6.0 release that should be merged
>> > and used by IcedTea6.
>> > http://www.cacaojvm.org/
>> >
>
> Is anyone working on this?

I can do this. It should be completely trivial, though. Especially
since I'd really like icedtea to stick to building from hg.

>> > Cacao + OpenJDK 7  Icedtea 2.3.2 = unstable
>> > The CACAO OpenJDK 7 port is immature, it can run HelloWorld and
>> > some numerical simple benchmarks
>> > but refuses to run real world applications that access file IO.
>> > Do not package.
>> >
>
> Ok, should this also be upgraded to 1.6?  Are there CACAO bugs for these issues?

Should what be upgraded? I'll file and triage this soon.