Jon Harrop wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2009 14:59:03 Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: >> Jon Harrop wrote: >>> If you cannot get tail calls accepted into the required standard, then >>> release an additional non-standard JVM that includes the existing >>> implementation of tail call elimination (and potentially other useful >>> features). >> Or you could do it, since you seem to have the money and resources to >> build a new VM from scratch. I think it would be more cost-effective to >> start with OpenJDK and improve from there. > > How difficult would it be to implement typed nulls and value types in OpenJDK?
Here's John Rose's article on tuples: http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/tuples_in_the_vm And another on fixnums, which is probably also illustrative: http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/fixnums_in_the_vm Typed nulls I'm not sure. Does anyone else know? I imagine this could be implemented at a Java language level as well...is VM support needed? - 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
