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[Brian Jones]

Eric Blake <ebb9@email.byu.edu> writes:

> 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.

At the release of the JikesRVM to the public the IBM folks seemed
interested in making it work with Classpath in order to make the lives
of researchers easier.  The current library set comes from some
company IBM swallowed and isn't all that free.

There are a few classes that would have to be very different from our
implementations (not even part of the VM specific set we know and
love), they asked about including those with Classpath, and I said it
was okay.  I've never heard anything else from those folks.

Brian
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Brian Jones <cbj@gnu.org>