weldon!  Been waiting!  welcome!

geir

On May 17, 2005, at 7:25 PM, Weldon Washburn wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 3:22 PM
To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Developing Harmony


On May 16, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:


I'm pretty sure we want a framework in C/C++, whatever components are developed in.


+1


If it's an "either Java or C/C++" question, I would choose C/C++. At this point in time, I worry about the logistics of building a productizable JVM written in Java. For example, would we be able to sort out the boot protocol of a JVM written in Java quick enough to keep the attention of everyone currently interested in Harmony? Writing the JVM in Java might limit JVM components that could be donated to Apache. For example, it might not be possible to reuse the code for a JIT or GC written in C/C++.

In the long term, it would be nice if we could define interfaces such
that Harmony could evolve into being written mostly in Java.  Perhaps
the interfaces between internal JVM components can be defined such
that a component can be written in Java or C/C++.  Perhaps a good
place to start is to define the JIT/VM interface such that a JIT can
be written in Java or C/C++.  Thoughts?




Question to the floor: if it had to be one of C and C++, which would you prefer?


C++

Oog. <grunt> Thog like to bang rocks, but Thog also like inheritance,
ABCs and generics.

geir

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