From: Andrew H. <ah...@re...> - 2012-07-04 14:55:20
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----- Original Message ----- > > > > Andreas Sewe <se...@st...> wrote on 07/03/2012 > 04:27:30 PM: > > > > > there are two issues with moving to 0.99: > > > > - First and foremost, 0.99 does not yet contain Andrew's fix to the > > performance issue I'd uncovered. > > > > - Second, 0.99 indeed fails to build under Mac OS X (issue > > described at > > < http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.java.patches/16395 >); > > assuming > > this is the issue Dmitri encountered, this should be fixed in the > > git HEAD. > > > > However, my Ant script currently downloads 0.97.2 by default and > > only if > > asked (-Dclasspath.from-git=true) it fetches the latest (post-0.99) > > HEAD > > from the Git repository. So, in a sense, this is the best of both > > worlds > > -- unless we really want to go to the trouble of maintaining our > > own > > patches fixing the performance and build issues of vanilla 0.99. (I > > probably won't have time to prepare those in the next couple of > > weeks; > > finishing my thesis right now.) > > > > > Hi, > > yes, this is what I was suggesting. We move to vanilla 0.99 and then > cherry pick the changesets you mention above we need to make that > work and maintain them in our set of patches. (I'm implicitly > assuming that there won't be a GNU Classpath 0.99.1 coming out > sometime soonish that had all the fixes we needed....if there were, > then that would clearly be the simplest path forward). > I have actually been thinking about a 0.99.1... with this performance improvement plus the BSD java.io.Console bug and regression in DateFormatSymbols (no localised date/time formats), I think it may be worthwhile. Any other fixes you'd like to see go in? Any patches that have been festering in JikesRVM for a long time? > --dave > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. > Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in > malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Jikesrvm-core mailing list > Jik...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jikesrvm-core > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07 |