You are familiar with byte-code ? stack operations are all with indexes to
32bit values. Changinginf it to all 64bit would make ur bytecode
imcompatable with all other java byte-code'd programs.
gat
Patrick Spingys wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Do you know, if there exists a project, which creates a
> Java-like-program in 64-bit ?
>
> The problem is the following:
> Now there exists Suns Java (which is the original) and then there are
> some projects
> (Kaffe and Japhar/Classpath) which want to create something like Java.
> But Kaffe and Japhar/Classpath are only run behind Japhar. Thats like
> the projects Wine (the Windows-Emulator). There the Wine-team creates an
> Wine,
> which creates a version, which can run the Windows-programs, but
> Micro$oft
> bring-out a new version and so Wine run behind the original again and
> again.
> With Kaffe and Japhar/Classpath its the same. Thats not so, that the
> develop of the
> original Java is stopped. Kaffe and Japhar/Classpath are only run behind
> the original.
>
> I think it is better to create a independent program, which can NOT run
> Java-programs,
> but which is Java-like -- in 64-bit. And on 32-bit-machines it emulate
> an 64-bit
> machine. Ok. So the programs run on 32-bit-machines very slow, but its
> for
> the future.
> Look at Intel. They bring out his new CPU called "Iridium". And I think
> in the future there
> exists so much computers which run with 32-bit like computers with 16-
> or 8-bit
> existing today.
> Then Sun bring out a new VM which runs on 64-bit machines and creates an
>
> compiler/programming-language for it. And the free projects ? If they
> don't begin
> to create something like this today, they run behind it again.
>
> So, exists a projects like this ?
>
> Patrick
