Mac+newest JDK changes?

Paul Hohensee paul.hohensee at oracle.com
Fri Oct 14 15:13:56 PDT 2011


Umm, "make it impossible to drop HS23 into JDK7"?
That'd be a no-no. 

Paul

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On Oct 14, 2011, at 6:33 AM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 14, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Oct 14, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Ola Bini wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm finally about to get back to hacking on Seph, specifically looking
>>> at performance - I would really like to be able to run the latest
>>> changes (things for u2 related to invoke dynamic) in MacOS X - what is
>>> the current status of this, and is it even possible at the moment?
>> 
>> Daniel Dougherty is currently working on getting the Mac OS X changes into HS23 (the runtime repository to be precise).  This should happen soon and after that presumably you can build a HS23 VM and drop it into a Mac OS X JDK build (at least I hope that will work).
> 
> Yes it works.  What I just did:
> 
> 1. downloaded the preview from Remi's link (so I don't have to build the JDK myself)
> 2. cloned the hotspot-rt repository
> 3. built a 64-bit VM (because that's the default on my box; I think universal_debug is actually the right target)
> 4. dropped the VM into the JDK preview
> 
> $ java -version
> openjdk version "1.7.0-ea"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-ea-b213)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.0-b02-internal-jvmg, mixed mode)
> 
> No errors with that build on the Seph testsuite.
> 
> And a heads-up:  soon we will push changes to HS23 that makes it impossible to drop HS23 into JDK 7.  I hope there will be a preview build of 8 soon.
> 
> -- Chris
> 
>> The BSD port changes were already integrated by Tom:
>> 
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hotspot-comp/hotspot/rev/f08d439fab8c
>> 
>> -- Chris
>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> -- 
>>> Ola Bini (http://olabini.com)
>>> Ioke - JRuby - ThoughtWorks
>>> 
>>> "Yields falsehood when quined" yields falsehood when quined.
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