macosx-port and mlvm

[Christian Thalinger]

On May 7, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
> Is the current macosx-port  to some extent current on the mlvm project?
> 
> I am restoring to somewhat functional a old java shell application I have. One thing I thought I would try it out on was testing some of the new mlvm support. 
> The application itself now sort of works, gui and all (X11 or with the wiki Swing test property), on the macosx-port 1.7 release. 
> Would that be workable for use with mlvm or would I be better off trying to get a version with the mlvm project patches layered on?
> If say I tested with running JRuby from the shell would it take advantage of the mlvm? If I am understanding the project at all correctly, which I may not be, thats one reason why I'm looking to get this app working, to start seeing what it's about.

JSR 292 support in the main repositories (and that includes macosx-port) is there for quite some time now and it works pretty good with e.g. JRuby (just use -Xcompile.invokedynamic=true).  I doubt you will need the bleeding edge stuff from mlvm.  If something fails, please let us know.

-- Christian