Hello Senaka, Welcome to the community. If I would set expectations for harmony-gc-5, I would suggest that Parrot VM test base passes on Parrot with XFL garbage collector plugged in. This includes subtasks such as unplugging Harmony GC from DRLVM, adjusting GC interface and code to work with object layout coded in Parrot PMCs* instead of layouts accessed via java object virtual tables and resolving porting layer and linking conflicts.
Thank you for your interest! * Which are very different from Apache PMCs. On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Senaka Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Xiaofeng, > > I'm a 3rd year university student with a C/C++ background and also a > reasonable amount of knowledge in Perl and Java. I'm interested in working > on the "*Build a garbage collector for C/C++ programs on the top of Harmony" > project (harmony-gc-5). I would like to know your expectations regarding > this. > > I have read through the Markmail archives of the Harmony dev list, and also > the discussion at [1]. And, would like to know a bit more on this project. > > [1] http://www.perl6.org/perl6-internals/2007-10/msg00091.html > > Thanks, > > Senaka Fernando, > Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, > University of Moratuwa, > Sri Lanka > * > -- With best regards, Alexei
