Jochen, AFAIU, you have some problems with Oracle Java implementation. What do you expect from Apache Harmony? Do you want to hack into the Apache Harmony code?
-- With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, http://dataved.ru/ +7 916 562 8095 On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Jochen Theodorou <blackd...@gmx.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I noticed that there is recently not much going on in harmony, but I hope > there are still enough people to react to this mail. > > As one implementing a dynamic language for the JVM, namely Groovy, I > continuously have to fight the JVM in so many terms, that I am wondering if > it would not be an idea to extend an existing JVM to make things fast. For > this I was thinking of an basically running implementation in Java, but with > special recognition by for example the JIT, to remove some of the heavy > stones in the pathway. This is for example the meta class system, invoking > methods in general, hopefully to be able to collapse some code paths and > maybe do some checks internally faster than what we have now. > > Of course with invokedynamic JSR292 we would get maybe many of these things, > but there will be still problems, only a bit less. > > So I was wondering if Harmony would be a good starting point for this kind > of approach. I would like to hear some opinions of the developers if you > care. > > bye Jochen > > -- > Jochen "blackdrag" Theodorou > The Groovy Project Tech Lead > http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/ > For Groovy programming sources visit http://groovy.codehaus.org > >