Re: [freenet-tech] Technology / Features

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>]

Eric Blake wrote:

>Tom Tromey wrote:
>
>>There's also the IBM RJVM (I think that's what it is called), but I
>>haven't really looked at it yet.  It might be doable.
>>
>
>It's called the JikesRVM (no relation to the jikes compiler except the
>name).  It is a bytecode interpreter implemented completely in Java, at
>least that's what their web site claims.  I haven't looked at it any
>closer myself, either.
>

The cool thing about GCJ is that there arn't any bootstrapping issues 
for JITs written in Java. Come to think of it, I wonder why Tom wrote 
the verifier in C++ ;-)

I think the most important thing for making JITs work with libgcj is 
coming up with a good ABI so that they can be created and distributed by 
third parties, and dynamically loaded.

regards

Bryce.