> > - jc (written in C) > > - jikes rvm (written in java) > > Between those two I'm on the side of jc becuase it should run faster > than jikes rvm, I don't know why it wouldn't. Though I don't know why > Kaffe isn't on the list.
AFAICT JC is the only real option on the table right now. - jc was donated under the apache license. - JikesRVM is CPL, so i don't believe it's automatically on the table without IBM's releasing a version under the apache license. - Kaffe is GPL and no one organization or person owns the copyright (as compared to GNU projects, for example), so it's basically impossible to re-license. since we're now officially in the incubator, can we check this into an apache SVN repository and get hacking at it? Regarding the x-platform & modularity goals; regardless of whether most of the VM itself is written in Java, C, or whatever, having a small bootloading VM layer that instantiates the rest of the VM -- again, a la JikesRVM -- is probably a good design decision and something that can be worked on immediately; not that I'm volunteering for that myself ;) . best, -Rob
