A few years back I had started the process of using JPype with PyPy. I most recently started digging into Clojure and JDK 7 ( https://github.com/ohpauleez/soymacchiato), but I now have some free cycles. I'd certainly be up for digging in.
Paul 2011/5/13 Michał Bendowski <mic...@bendowski.pl> > Thank you for your support Niko, Antonio and Charles. It seems that > the plan for now is to dig into pypy and try to get familiar with the > source (and I imagine it's not an easy task). As Antonio mentioned, > the first step is probably to work on integration at the RPython level > - and we should probably collaborate on that. Later we will have to > split probably, as a master's thesis is usually supposed to be an > individual contribution. That's not a problem for me right now, since > I will be doing an internship during the summer and I won't be able to > spend as much time on the project as I would like to. And everything > can change during that time :) > > Just out of curiosity - where are you guys (Bo, Dario) studying? I'm > from the University of Warsaw. > > Cheers, > > Michał > > > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 09:29, Niko Matsakis <n...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I just wanted to say that I am certainly available to answer questions > about > > the code that exists. I don't know how much work has been done on it > since > > I last touched it, though. I would be interested in helping out somewhat > as > > well, but at the moment my time is very limited... I'm in the process of > > finishing up my PhD as well as various other projects. Anyway, I > definitely > > think it'd be great if the JVM backend saw some attention! > > > > > > Niko > > > > Antonio Cuni wrote: > > > > On 11/05/11 23:02, Michał Bendowski wrote: > > > > Welcome everyone :) > > > > I was wondering what is the current status of the JVM backend. > > > > [cut] > > > > Hello Michał, Dario, Bo, > > I'm glad to see that there is interest around the JVM backend :-) > > > > Here is a summary of the current status and possible future direction. > > > > What works: translation of the basic interpreter to JVM > > > > What does not work/it's not there: > > > > 1) integration with the JVM classes at the RPython level > > 2) integration with the JVM classes at application level > > 3) JIT backend > > 4) a lot of modules which currently only work with the C backend > > > > Point (1) is a blocker for the rest, so it must be done before everything > > else. > > > > The idea, is to be able to instantiate java classes and call java methods > > from > > RPython code: the JVM backend will then turn these into the corresponding > > bytecode (invokespecial/invokevirtual). This is "easy", but you need a > deep > > understanding of the internals of the RPython toolchain to implement this > > (in > > particular, the annotation and the rtyping phases). > > > > The other requirement is that we want to be able to do JVM call also > during > > testing. As know, RPython is a subset of Python, and you can either > > translate > > it to C/JVM/CLI or execute it directly on top of CPython. The latter is > > what > > we do all the time when doing testing. Testing on top of CPython is > > extremely > > convenient for a large number of reasons which I'm not going to explain > > because it's late :-) > > > > We do not want to loose the possibility of testing on top of CPython, > even > > when our RPython code contains calls to JVM classes. So, we need a way > to > > interface with the JVM from CPython, and this is why I asked Dario to > > investigate on JPype and JTool. > > > > Once step (1) is complete, the other tasks can be done in parallel. > > > > ciao, > > Anto > > _______________________________________________ > > pypy-dev mailing list > > pypy-dev@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev mailing list > pypy-dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev >
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