On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Stepan Koltsov <y...@mx1.ru> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 13:15, Francis ANDRE > <francis.andre.kampb...@orange.fr> wrote: >> >> So may be Oracle will allow/understand the necessity to have packed/zoned >> decimal as first class data type like integers as well as extended bytecode >> instructions for managing them.... > > I hope that they understand the need of structs/value types and unsafe > memory operations, not just decimals hacks.
Me too. My top JVM language feature requests lately are (not including indy, which is well on its way): 1. Interface Injection (I have started to explore what it would take to remove IRubyObject from all our call paths; it's a *lot* of work) 2. Fixnums (or even better, general-purpose value types...on numeric algorithms, JRuby is saturating allocation rates right now) 3. Coroutines (ideally without requiring me to annotate every frame that can be resumed, since in Ruby or Python that could basically be any method anywhere) I'd also like to see tail calls, but it doesn't directly help me. - Charlie _______________________________________________ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev
