Matthew French wrote:
Dmitry Serebrennikov said:I don't know that much about VM internals yet. But will it also need threads? I agree that APR will be most useful for the libraries though. So I guess those libraries being in Java is not a foregone conclusion either then? :) JNI is a mess though...
Using APR sounds very promising.
I need to verify this, but I don't believe APR really gives us what we need in a VM?
A VM is very "thought intensive" code, but it should have very little dependance on external system libraries. It needs to do malloc and printf and that would be about it. And often you would want to use system specific libraries for the performance gain.
APR would be very useful for the J2SE libraries, though. But that is a
different issue.
-dmitry
