Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Note that there also just is the Not Enough Time thing... :{Well understood. > > * The use of native code should be limited. Preferrably to primitive > > operations that cannot be performed from within Java > > What do you exactly mean when you say native code here? Do > you mean the > use of JNI code? Or just VM specific interface code?. I don't think we > should restrict it to much. > > I believe that if something cannot be done in Java, but can be done > through JNI (+POSIX) then GNU Classpath should provide a native > (reference) implementation. I didn't mean to imply that GNU Classpath shouldn't provide a native implementation, just that the native methods should be as small as possible (i.e. real primitives that can be used as building blocks for more complex operations). > Also when something can be done in java, but there is an > possibility for > the VM to do something more efficient (like for example the > getCurrentClass(Loader) methods) then they should be moved into the VM > interface code (with a default java implementation so VM implementers > don't have to implement them "natively" if they don't want to). Absolutely. When you have JNI mechanism that is slow, it may be worthwhile to move more stuff to native, but I don't that should be the default. > BTW. Are you going to point people to the latest Mono 0.20 > release notes anytime soon? You really should shout this > from the highest roof you can find. Hint, hint... Despite what the release notes say, we're not just yet at a point where it works. We're getting there pretty quickly though. My lameness in makefile department isn't really helping though ;-) I still haven't gotten around to getting Mono to build on my system. > P.S Why the HTML email with font size=tiny? > Did someone complain that they couldn't read the plain text version? Yeah, sorry about that. I recently switched to using an MS Exchange 2003 server with Outlook 2003 (both beta versions) and I haven't been able to figure out what causes that. I'm sending plain text mails, but the mail header contains a MIME-Version and Content-Type header and I'm guessing that the listserv software generates the HTML based on that. Regards, Jeroen _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
