Am Sonntag, 25. April 2004 13:40 schrieb David P Grove: > And if your VM is sufficiently weird enough (Jikes RVM with m-n > threading), then you might actually want to do something different > about files. We used to have our own version of FileDescriptor and > do non-blocking I/O with hooks back into our threading layer instead > of using the default classpath implementation. This got out of sync > with classpath at some point and we don't use it currently, but > something like it will come back eventually. > > On VMFoo vs. NativeFoo vs. PlatformFoo, I really don't care. I only > observe that one person's VMFoo is another person's native/platfrom > so perhaps it makes sense to just pick one name (VM) and leave it. I > suspect you are unlikely to be able to "nicely" divide the classes > along these lines so why waste any intellectual effort (and silly > flame wars) arguing about whether something is a VMFoo vs a > NativeFoo.
That's the best mail I read about this so far. Thx. Michael _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath