Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-harmony-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 47156 invoked from network); 18 May 2005 18:09:24 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 18 May 2005 18:09:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 52513 invoked by uid 500); 18 May 2005 17:24:13 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-harmony-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 52400 invoked by uid 500); 18 May 2005 17:24:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact harmony-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 52256 invoked by uid 99); 18 May 2005 17:24:08 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.4 required=10.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,RCVD_BY_IP,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (hermes.apache.org: domain of thunderaxiom@gmail.com designates 64.233.184.207 as permitted sender) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (HELO wproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.184.207) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.28) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 May 2005 10:24:06 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so312049wri for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 10:23:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=c4SFdlhdADHZPPYNfXBmEaJ803aYea/+WivUeGrN7WpypclG8K8APkxEw94/yvNW7iOVIBLS6oGdk51b+p07gFlYV+w6bD9HbdVLRsopTGPTxJ1/DoOWv2OLlGwCRk6Rm4b6fNVQKQELMT7RCqzRxgvLqawSyj0bhvzS0ZrXv44= Received: by 10.54.59.11 with SMTP id h11mr1128580wra; Wed, 18 May 2005 10:23:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.69? ([80.161.71.113]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 40sm182532wrl.2005.05.18.10.23.35; Wed, 18 May 2005 10:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <428B41C6.6000601@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:23:18 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thorbj=F8rn_Ravn_Andersen?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Developing Harmony References: <428439D6.5080709@anu.edu.au> <4288C19E.4000109@algroup.co.uk> <42890C31.1090008@anu.edu.au> <4289F65B.2010402@algroup.co.uk> <428AF892.3050502@algroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <428AF892.3050502@algroup.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Ben Laurie wrote: > In any case, here I am with a platform that currently has no VM, but > does have a C compiler. What do I do? > > In your world, I first port some other VM, then port Harmony. I don't > understand why this is not harder? The bootstrapping JVM does not need to be particularly fast nor efficient. That comes when Harmony compiles itself on your platform.