Re: [Jikesrvm-core] [Jikesrvm-commits] SF.net SVN: jikesrvm: [13011] rvmroot/trunk

[Robin G. <rob...@an...>]

Peter Donald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 7/10/07, rg...@us... <rg...@us...> wrote:
>> Revision: 13011
>>           http://svn.sourceforge.net/jikesrvm/?rev=13011&view=rev
>> Author:   rgarner
>> Date:     2007-07-10 01:12:54 -0700 (Tue, 10 Jul 2007)
>>
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> Create MMTk properties file, to allow build-time twiddling of constants that are currentl scattered through MMTk source files
> 
> Is there a reason that you are not using the same mechanism used in
> the rest of the RVM for build time configuration? I would generally
> prefer one approach to build time configuration so that everything
> flows through (ie recorded in test system, easily specifiable in
> nightly test runs etc).
> 

There are 2 aims here.  1) to preserve the pluggability of MMTk, and 2) 
to facilitate working with MMTk options that are orthogonal to JikesRVM 
builds.  The only field currently configurable here is the choice of 
header vs side metadata, which is relevant to all collectors that use 
mark-sweep spaces.

-- 
Robin Garner
Dept. of Computer Science
Australian National University
http://cs.anu.edu.au/people/Robin.Garner/