Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Thursday April 2 2009, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: >> ... >> >> Well, you can always build and release a binary yourself, since it's >> GPLed...you just can't call it "Java" or "JVM" because it's not being >> held to those standards. Would that make you comfortable enough to >> run something like MLVM with its early tail call support? > > For uses other than experiments of various sorts or for purely local > development activities, this is a non-starter. I'm pretty sure that the > respective principals behind Clojure and Scala will not alter their > code generation to exploit non-standard JVM bytecodes, so for the large > majority of users, this approach is simply irrelevant.
JRuby already includes logic that will attempt to use invokedynamic when running on a VM with invokedynamic. I plan to do the same for other experimental features like TCO. It's not that hard. - Charlie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 jvm-languages+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
