Re: gc literature

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From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 18:09:35 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...
>

It's a question of resources too. TVT is probably busy with fulfilling
their contractual obligations to customers, and Tim is not known to
fix things that ain't broke. (*) In addition, there is so much left to
do in the awt/swing and class library area.

        - Godmar

(*) Actually, what I'd really like Tim see doing is the egcs integration
cause he's the only person who could do that.
(If I had a say... We could set up a bug voting system, I guess...)


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