SubstrateVM

[Johan Vos]

That is good news! (plus/minus 6 months).
Will that work-in-progress be in public repositories, so that others can
track/contribute?

Thanks a lot!

- Johan

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 7:20 PM Jaroslav Tulach <jaroslav.tulach at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dne neděle 4. února 2018 20:04:01 CEST, Johan Vos napsal(a):
> > Having SubstrateVM for iOS would be great.
> >
> > There are a number of things though that I think should be addressed as
> > well:
> > * Java 9: at this moment it seems SubstrateVM requires a Java 8 VM
>
> I've been told the support for JDK9 is being worked on and I [can estimate]
> (http://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/Estimate) the delivery date to be
> November
> 2018, plus/minus twelve months.
> -jt
>
>
> > * JNI
> > * Reflection
> >
> > I am impressed by how easy it was to compile HelloWorld and embed it in a
> > single executable on Linux. I am currently looking into running a JavaFX
> > application, as that would be the real-world test. That doesn't work out
> of
> > the box of course, and I'm looking at how much work it would be.
> >
> > All of this doesn't mean we should rule out hotspot of course. Again
> using
> > a real-world JavaFX application as a testcase, the current situation is
> the
> > following:
> > * a relative complex JavaFX application runs using the native code in the
> > jdk directory from openjdk/mobile/dev, with classes from that same
> > directory compiled using Gluon VM AOT, and statically linked with Gluon
> > VM's VM (boson)
> > * that same application also runs on hotspot with the zero interpreter,
> but
> > of course much slower.
> >
> > For OpenJDK Mobile, I see 2 big options moving forward:
> > * use something like jaotc to compile all classes and dependencies aot,
> and
> > have hotspot use the compiled methods
> > * bring SubstrateVM at the same level as the current openjdk/mobile/dev
> > (which means support for Java 9, JNI and reflection).
> >
> > - Johan
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 10:18 AM Jaroslav Tulach <
> jaroslav.tulach at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Dne pátek 26. ledna 2018 16:17:46 CET, Bob Vandette napsal(a):
> > > > I’m a big fan of the SubstrateVM work that Oracle Labs is doing.
> > >
> > > Glad to hear that Bob! I'd be also delighted to see SubstrateVM support
> > > for
> > > iOS. It would be a great PR for our work.
> > >
> > > According to our boss, it should be a simple research project for an
> > > intern or
> > > a university student to turn the support for  AARCH64 on, given the
> fact
> > > that
> > > Graal already has the support.
> > > -jt
>
>
>