> I put this question to the group at the Java 7 BOF at Devoxx and Alex > Buckley gave an interesting answer - that people basically feel that the > patchset is sound, but that what's missing is people prepared to run with > it, test it out, report back, etc. > > If that's the case, then what do people on this group think? Is there enough > demand for it for people to commit time to it? It's a long time till Java 8, > after all. > > Charlie: Would you use it for JRuby if it was available?
If you post it, they will come, I think. If we can get someone or several people to help set up a clean build of MLVM with the tail call patches, then we can either distribute a binary or even a complete VM (VMWare, Parallels) image people can play with. Once it's out there lang authors will need to work out the bits to push the extra instruction to mark tail calls, and we can get some feedback. Even negative feedback coming from several languages would be welcome, I think. I think the main step is getting at least an x86 MLVM build posted somewhere, then notifying the various lang authors that it's available. Ideally there would be a build server but that's probably too much to hope for. Not that I'm saying I have the time, just wanted to helpfully point out a way forward :) Patrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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.
