Re: [arch] VM Candidate : JC @ http://jcvm.sourceforge.net/

[usman bashir <gr...@gmail.com>]

 It seems good geir ! and also seems to be following what we planned for 
harmony, and it could be a good starting point for us, later on we can make 
required changes as we moves on, and it will also help to impatients to work 
on and see some thing written down from the air to papers :)


 On 5/18/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <ge...@apache.org> wrote: 
> 
> For those that want meaningful subjects lines, here it is and for
> those that are waiting for an architecture discussion - here it is.
> 
> Here's the first of the offered VMs. (I've privately mailed Tom van
> Dijck about mudGE so we can look at something else)
> 
> I've downloaded and will begin playing with today. Archie, can you
> give a brief overview of structure?
> 
> Can we get some discussion about this from those that know about
> about VM architecture?
> 
> geir
> 
> On May 16, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> >
> > As mentioned before, and/all of JC [1] is available and I'll
> > be happy to relicense it. All of the code was written by me
> > (though I didn't invent all of the algorithms of course).
> >
> > Some bits I can think of that may be useful, roughly ordered
> > from smaller and more likely to larger and less likely...
> >
> > - Splay tree implementation (splay.c)
> > - String/UTF-8 functions (string.c, utf.c)
> > - ZIP file reader (zip.c)
> > - Class file parser (cf_parse.c)
> > - Native local and global reference code (native_ref.c)
> > - Per-classloader memory allocator (cl_alloc.c)
> > - SableVM thin lock algorithm (lock.c)
> > - Native library loader (native_lib.c)
> > - VM Bootstrap code (vm.c, bootstrap.c)
> > - JNI support (jni_invoke.c, jni_native.c)
> > - Reflection support (reflect.c)
> > - Dynamic invoker (invoke.c)
> > - Threading support (thread.c)
> > - Heap structure and garbage collector (heap.c, gc_root.c,
> > gc_scan.c).
> > - Bytecode interpreter (interp.c)
> > - Class loading, derivation, and resolution (load2.c, derive2.c,
> > resolve.c)
> >
> > There's also an ELF object loader and DWARF2 parser if you need
> > those :-)
> >
> > -Archie
> >
> > [1] http://jcvm.sourceforge.net/
> >
> 
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> geirm@apache.org
> 
> 


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