Re: Harmonizing on modularity

2005-05-22 Thread Jakob Praher
Hi Doug, thanks for joining the discussion. Doug Lea wrote: No matter whether you think you are starting with a JVM written in Java or a micro-kernel-ish one in C (which seem to be the leading options), you will probably discover that you end up writing most of it in Java. I think that a

Re: timeframe for mid-level decissions

2005-05-21 Thread Jakob Praher
hi Tom, Tom Tromey wrote: Jakob == Jakob Praher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jakob do we want to build something that competes with sun j2se/mono on the Jakob desktop side (gnome/redhat would be interested in that) I don't speak for Red Hat, but I can explain a little about why we ship gcj

Re: timeframe for mid-level decissions

2005-05-21 Thread Jakob Praher
hi Geir, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On May 19, 2005, at 8:18 AM, Jakob Praher wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On May 19, 2005, at 5:24 AM, Jakob Praher wrote: Both of these are conventional expectations, and we can meet this via pluggability, right? If you have for instance completly

Re: timeframe for mid-level decissions

2005-05-20 Thread Jakob Praher
hi David, thanks for pointing that out. I haven't looked into the application but, some notes from my side. David Griffiths wrote: From the llvm web site: LLVM does not currently support garbage collection of multi-threaded programs or GC-safe points other than function calls, but these will

Re: timeframe for mid-level decissions

2005-05-19 Thread Jakob Praher
I've put some corrections in, so that its more understandable. Jakob Praher wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On May 19, 2005, at 5:24 AM, Jakob Praher wrote: I don't understand Take classpath project. It aims at working accross open vms. So you have to build a glue layer between what