On 5/24/06, Rana Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Weldon, Does your research show that MMTk has a functional dependency on Write Barriers?
Good question. I want to play by Apache rules. I am waiting for Apache legal to inform us if we can port MMTK to an Apache Harmony JVM.
My understanding of write barriers is as an optimization.
That fits with my understanding of write barriers also. I do not know for certain but suspect that MMTK can somehow be configured such that write barriers are not required for correctness. Maybe Dan Feinberg can tell the mailing list.
Also, the contribution GC is not generational. So..I am not sure how this would be tested etc. Thanks, Rana On 5/23/06, Weldon Washburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Folks, > > There were several interesting email chains about Harmony VM and MMTK > last year. This topic died in large part because there was no JVM. > Since then, several JVMs have been donated. I volunteer to do an > initial investigation of porting MMTK to the recent DRLVM donation. > From a quick grep of the code, it appears that write barriers are only > partially implemented. We will need to make write barriers functional > before many of the features of MMTK can be used. Thoughts? > > Weldon > > > > -- > Weldon Washburn > Intel Middleware Products Division > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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