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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:08:38 -0800
From: "Weldon Washburn" <weldonwjw@gmail.com>
To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [drlvm][build] Where to put mmtk.jar?
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All,
I received a private email from Steve Blackburn regarding mmtk.jar.  There
is a new forum for discussing vmmagic at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmmagic.  It seems that vmmagic API won't be
changed impulsively as there are several projects dependent on the current
interface.


On 10/27/06, Xiao-Feng Li <xiaofeng.li@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/27/06, Mikhail Fursov <mike.fursov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/27/06, Weldon Washburn <weldonwjw@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 10/26/06, Xiao-Feng Li <xiaofeng.li@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi, Mikhail, would you please educate me why this helper inlining
> work
> > > > depends on mmtk.jar? If only the unboxed classes are used, why can't
> > > > we write a simple replacement? That's just easy.
> > >
> > >
> > > Agreed its real easy to do.  But I for one would like Harmony to stay
> as
> > > close to MMTk standard interfaces as possible.  And the best way to do
> > > that
> > > is download their *.class files.  Otherwise 3 years from now the world
> > > will
> > > have MMTk vmmagic and Harmony vmmagic that are not identical.
> >
> >
> > +1
> > This also will attract MMTk developers to our project. As Robin said our
> > project has VM, compiler, classlib and everything else needed for J2SE
> in
> > the same place. So we are more flexible for experiments then any other
> open
> > Java platform I know.
>
> Agree. As long as we have API documentation available for helper
> developers, this is a good solution.
>
> Thanks,
> xiaofeng
>
> > --
> > Mikhail Fursov
> >
> >
>


-- 
Weldon Washburn
Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division

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