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From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <geirm@apache.org>
Subject: Re: timeframe for mid-level decissions
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 06:39:59 -0400
To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org


On May 19, 2005, at 10:34 PM, Renaud BECHADE wrote:

>
>
> =EF=BC=9E=46rom the llvm web site: "LLVM does not currently support =
garbage
> =EF=BC=9Ecollection of multi-threaded programs or GC-safe points other =
than
> =EF=BC=9Efunction calls, but these will be added in the future as =
there is
> =EF=BC=9Einterest."  I would imagine that's quite a lot of work.
>
> Ouch, but I suppose this is less work than say write form scratch an
> optimizing JIT for 4 or 5 different architectures (x86, AMD64, =20
> powerpc32bit,
> powerpc64bit, sparc, arm, etc.)

Well, I dunno.  I would think that if we got enough momentum and =20
became 'real', we'd find someone from Intel, AMD, IBM, Sun etc to =20
help out ;)

I'm actually not that worried about the ports.

I think that this is one of the few places where I'd bet that "if we =20
build it, they *will* come"

geir

>
> RB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Griffiths [mailto:david.griffiths@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:33 PM
> To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: timeframe for mid-level decissions
>
>
>> =46rom the llvm web site: "LLVM does not currently support garbage
>>
> collection of multi-threaded programs or GC-safe points other than
> function calls, but these will be added in the future as there is
> interest."  I would imagine that's quite a lot of work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
>

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Geir Magnusson Jr                                  +1-203-665-6437
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