What's the performance of IKVM? I'm skeptical about having to spin up a Java VM inside .NET and the kind of overhead that that would produce Aaron Powell Umbraco Ninja
http://www.aaron-powell.com | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype: aaron.l.powell | MSN: aaz...@hotmail.com On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Ryan Hoffman <rhoff...@tntp.org> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I'm loving all the recent activity on the dev list. I've been watching it > for some time, and I was also deeply disturbed seeing no posts. This is my > first message on the list :). > > I see that you are evaluating Sharpen. I was wondering if you've heard of > IKVM, it's a Java VM that runs on top of .NET/Mono and it also includes a > tool which can be used to convert java libraries/apps to .NET assemblies. > Check it out at: http://www.ikvm.net/. If this works, it promises to be > a very reliable way to convert the official java distribution to .NET. > > I will give this a shot soon and report back! > > Ryan Hoffman > Software Architect > The New Teacher Project > www.tntp.org > > Evaluation systems are broken - so how do we fix them? Teacher Evaluation > 2.0 - http://tntp.org/eval2.0 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Powell [mailto:m...@aaron-powell.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 10:25 PM > To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Porting Automation - Sharpen > > Nice work Alex with getting the ball rolling. > > I've decided to chuck the contents of that ZIP onto bitbucket (I hope you > don't mind) since it'll be easier to track the testing against it than > through an email. It's available here: > http://hg.slace.biz/lucene-via-sharpen > This is the raw package contents from Alex, I'll do some updates to it so > that it's not tied to Alex's setup and works more generically (unless > someone beats me to it) over the weekend > > <http://hg.slace.biz/lucene-via-sharpen>Note: This is NOT an attempt to > move away from ASF, it's just a way for us to test out how well Sharpen > performs as a tool for Java to .NET conversion, if it turns out to be a > viable option this will be rolled back to ASF. This is just a playground :) > > Aaron Powell > Umbraco Ninja > > http://www.aaron-powell.com | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype: > aaron.l.powell | MSN: aaz...@hotmail.com > > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Alex Thompson <pierogi...@hotmail.com > >wrote: > > > I did an initial run of Lucene 3.0.2 through Sharpen. It stops when there > > is > > an error or finds something it doesn't have a mapping for. I added some > > placeholder mappings so it would at least get through a few files. > > > > Here is a package of what I have so far: > > http://convid.com/alex/lucene/Lucene.Net.Sharpen20101104.zip > > > > It contains the C# files from the test run, the jars for Sharpen, and my > > Ant > > script with the custom mappings. I encourage others to look at the code > and > > try sharpen. You can use my script to get started. > > > > Alex > > > > >
