Proposal: zero-assembler port of OpenJDK

[Gary Benson]

Hi all,

I'm Gary Benson, an engineer at Red Hat.  Over the past year or so
I've been working on a port of OpenJDK that uses no assembler and
therefore can trivially be built on any system.

The port, known as zero, is presently an interpreter-only port, and
is known to work on PowerPC (32- and 64-bit), x86-64, IA-64, and
zSeries.  An LLVM-based JIT, known as Shark, is currently under
development.  Currently only Linux is supported, but adding support
for other operating systems is one area in which I'd particularly
welcome contributions.

The goal of this project would be to be able to build a TCK-compliant
OpenJDK of reasonable performance on any platform with no additional
porting work.

Cheers,
Gary

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