You certainly scared a few people :) I didn't figure there would be any reason ongoing work wouldn't reach future Java 7 updates, though, since I know a lot of Java 7 HS work ended up in later Java 6 updates.
- Charlie On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalin...@oracle.com> wrote: > Ehh, I think the wording was not very good. What I meant is after some JDK > changes are put back we will remove some unused code from the VM and that VM > (which will be >= HS23) cannot be dropped into 7 GA or 7u2. But of course > it's possible to use this VM in >= 7u4. I hope that makes it more clear. > > The reason I posted this heads-up here is that there might be a timeframe in > the future were people are building the latest VM from hotspot-comp and want > to drop that into 7 GA. > > -- Chris > > On Oct 15, 2011, at 12:13 AM, Paul Hohensee wrote: > >> Umm, "make it impossible to drop HS23 into JDK7"? >> That'd be a no-no. >> >> Paul >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 14, 2011, at 6:33 AM, Christian Thalinger >> <christian.thalin...@oracle.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Oct 14, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Oct 14, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Ola Bini wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm finally about to get back to hacking on Seph, specifically looking >>>>> at performance - I would really like to be able to run the latest >>>>> changes (things for u2 related to invoke dynamic) in MacOS X - what is >>>>> the current status of this, and is it even possible at the moment? >>>> >>>> Daniel Dougherty is currently working on getting the Mac OS X changes into >>>> HS23 (the runtime repository to be precise). This should happen soon and >>>> after that presumably you can build a HS23 VM and drop it into a Mac OS X >>>> JDK build (at least I hope that will work). >>> >>> Yes it works. What I just did: >>> >>> 1. downloaded the preview from Remi's link (so I don't have to build the >>> JDK myself) >>> 2. cloned the hotspot-rt repository >>> 3. built a 64-bit VM (because that's the default on my box; I think >>> universal_debug is actually the right target) >>> 4. dropped the VM into the JDK preview >>> >>> $ java -version >>> openjdk version "1.7.0-ea" >>> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-ea-b213) >>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.0-b02-internal-jvmg, mixed mode) >>> >>> No errors with that build on the Seph testsuite. >>> >>> And a heads-up: soon we will push changes to HS23 that makes it impossible >>> to drop HS23 into JDK 7. I hope there will be a preview build of 8 soon. >>> >>> -- Chris >>> >>>> The BSD port changes were already integrated by Tom: >>>> >>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hotspot-comp/hotspot/rev/f08d439fab8c >>>> >>>> -- Chris >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> -- >>>>> Ola Bini (http://olabini.com) >>>>> Ioke - JRuby - ThoughtWorks >>>>> >>>>> "Yields falsehood when quined" yields falsehood when quined. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> mlvm-dev mailing list >>>>> mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net >>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> mlvm-dev mailing list >>>> mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net >>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mlvm-dev mailing list >>> mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net >>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> mlvm-dev mailing list >> mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev > > _______________________________________________ > mlvm-dev mailing list > mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev > _______________________________________________ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev
