HotSpot C++ interpreter?

[Joe Darcy]

Mark Reinhold wrote:
> How hard would it be to merge the C++ interpreter from 7 back to 6?
>
> Andrew Haley of Red Hat tells me that it's important to have it so that
> Gary Benson's "zero-assembler" port can be used on architectures to which
> HotSpot hasn't yet been ported.
>
> I'd hope it'd be straightforward, but I could be wrong ...
>
> - Mark
>   

Currently the HotSpot in OpenJDK 6 is version 10 and the changes in 
question are from HotSpot 11 in JDK 7.  I'd rather wait for these change 
to flow into the OpenJDK 6 HotSpot via the proposed vm upgrade policy 
[1] than to start a nontrivial HotSpot branch in OpenJDK 6.

-Joe

[1] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2008-February/000005.html