Trying to implement fixnums

2011-10-24 Thread Stepan Koltsov
Hi, I'm trying to implement fixnums ( http://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/entry/fixnums_in_the_vm ). Task seems to be relatively easy. However, I don't know OpenJDK internals at all, so I'm asking for your help. First thing I'm trying to do is to override Integer.valueOf on 64-bit JVM. So, Integer.va

Re: what's John doing?

2008-07-21 Thread Stepan Koltsov
Shouldn't java.dyn be java.lang.dyn? For symmtry with java.lang.reflect. S. On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:45, John Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, colleagues. This month I'm hammering on method handle code in > the JVM. I'll do a checkpoint (push of partially working code) to > the repo.

Re: JSR-292: Why not java.lang.dyn?

2009-10-04 Thread Stepan Koltsov
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 15:40, Rémi Forax wrote: > Le 04/10/2009 11:39, Christian Thalinger a écrit : >> On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 23:43 -0500, Paul Benedict wrote: >> >>> I've always found it a bit perplexing that java.lang was never chosen >>> for the parent package of the Dynamic API. Why is that? D

Re: JSR-292: Why not java.lang.dyn?

2009-10-09 Thread Stepan Koltsov
John, how about multi-language java.lang.Class or java.lang.reflect.Field? S. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 19:12, John Rose wrote: > Thanks, Ben; well said.  Putting a multi-language JVM feature under > java.lang would be the wrong signal.  OTOH, if we ever do a type > "Dynamic" in the Java language

Re: Oracle/Sun and the JVM

2010-01-29 Thread Stepan Koltsov
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 13:15, Francis ANDRE 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/valu