On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:06 PM, John Rose wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Attila Szegedi wrote: > >> (I'm currently wasting my evening on trying and failing to make bsd- >> port of OpenJDK build on my Mac, but if I didn't I'd be seeing if I >> can repurpose the MOP project to serve as a helper for invokedynamic >> implementors; allowing the cross-language interop by exposing >> services >> for language-independent MethodHandle resolution.) > > > I build HotSpot on my Mac on Solaris over VMWare (partly so I can > use the most-excellent dbx). I'm waiting for braver souls to tame > the frontier lands of JDK-on-Mac builds, but will move there when it > gets more civilized. > > Meanwhile, I encourage you specifically to be a MOP pioneer, not an > OpenJDK pioneer! I know, I know... It's just that I love to see the software working, so wanted to have an operational MLVM with invokedynamic to work against, instead of writing stuff speculatively... I could settle for a 32-bit Intel MLVM binary for Mac OS X for the time being. If someone can fling it my way, I'd already be happy. Attila. > Yes, method handles cry out for a 2-stage overload API: Resolve > once, then call the resulting method handle many times for the same > syndrome of types. > > -- John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
