From: Archie Cobbs (archie@whistle.com)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 17:56:48 EST
Godmar Back writes:
> Thinking about how much work is still left on Kaffe, I think that we
> must make our modularization efforts a top priority --- GC and JIT
> spring to mind.
>
> I do believe that with a well-defined & documented GC & JIT
> interface, we would be able to attract the resources needed to bring
> them closer to the state of the art. For example, look at TYA: these
> guys were able to write a complete JIT for Sun's JVM without even
> looking at Sun's code. Or ShuJIT. (BTW, is there any chance we could
> support the java.lang.Compiler interface?)
Sounds very familiar... :-) I was barking about this exact same point
about six months ago...
-Archie
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