On May 19, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Rob Gonzalez wrote:
- 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?
No. I think it's really in our best interest to sort out our commit policy before committing *any* code. (I still have fresh scars from Geronimo, due to process, rather than actual issues. But process can kill you...)
Expect an email after I land tomorrow, 12:40 EDT :)
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 ;) .
You mean a launcher?
geir
best, -Rob
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