Having been involved in porting Microsoft's CoreCLR JIT to ARM (for Tizen 4.0) I'd say that's an underestimate, unless OpenJDK is somehow far better written.
I can't see either one being done without sponsorship by a major corporation. On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 7:12 PM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 07/02/18 22:00, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > > > There appears to be considerable community interest in a RISC-V > > OpenJDK port, so my hope is that while I don't have time to directly > > contribute much myself that we'll be able to get something sane up > > and running. Interested users can test on QEMU, and we've recently > > announced a board (and associated beta program that provide free > > boards to open source developers) so there's some hardware to run on > > as well. I'd like to request that the Porters Group sponsors this > > project with me as the lead. > > It's a multi-engineer-year project. Two engineers with deep knowledge > of HotSpot could get a bare-bones port done in a year, one doing the > assembler, C1, and template interpreter, and the other doing C2. Both > would work on the shared runtime. To get a really performant port done > would take at least twice that, probably longer. > > Anyone wanting to lead a porting project had better have plenty of > time and considerable expertise, or it'll go nowhere. I'll be happy > to advise, cajole, and generally encourage, but it's going to take > boots on the ground. > > -- > Andrew Haley > Java Platform Lead Engineer > Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> > EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RISC-V SW Dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sw-dev+unsubscr...@groups.riscv.org. > To post to this group, send email to sw-...@groups.riscv.org. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/a/ > groups.riscv.org/group/sw-dev/. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/ > groups.riscv.org/d/msgid/sw-dev/858dfbd1-5665-4b2a-70e2- > ed790e17a2a8%40redhat.com. >
