On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Dalibor Topic wrote: > On Friday 22 March 2002 11:16, Jukka Santala wrote: > > look into improving the PocketLinux Kaffe implementation. Speaking purely > > personally, I wouldn't mind seeing framebuffer GUI added to the desktop > > edition, or the GPL released versions merged, and that's something we're > > looking at. > speaking purely personally: > Merging things from pocketlinux' kaffe to kaffe.org sounds interesting to me. > I've seen that pocketlinux features a lot of new stuff (new mem mgmt, gcs, > jit, platforms, frambuffer, microwindows, gtk peers, ...) and would like to > see some of that finding its way into the desktop edition.
Jim could probably elaborate on this, but at least the PocketLinux/standard builds of the KaffeVM Custom Edition were still using the same base garbage-collector & jit modules as the desktop edition. Indeed there was jit4 and mem2 & mem3 (Boehm Incremental Garbage Collector 6.0 bridge) on the PL branch, but I'm not sure if those were ready for prime-time, since they don't appear to have been used. I'm not entirely sure of microwindows etc. either; but provided these modules are functional (or at least semi-so) in the code made available before clsoing the development tree, I guess it shouldn't be too much of a trouble to transfer them over. It's the core and classlib changes (sometimes supporting said modules) that would be troublesome, I think... -Jukka Santala
