Re: [Sablevm-developer] trying SableVM in Debian

[Etienne M. G. <eti...@uq...>]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 11:48:30AM +0200, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
> W li?cie z nie, 11-08-2002, godz. 02:43, Etienne M. Gagnon pisze: 
> > Etienne M. Gagnon wrote:
> > > On the benchmark side, I have yet to see Kaffe run all of the SPECjvm98 
> > > benchmarks, SableCC and Soot.
> > 
> > To be honest, my current experiments show that the latest verions of Kaffe has 
> > been fixed to run all of SPECjvm98.  I'm still trying to get SableCC and Soot to 
> > run on it, though.
> Yes, kaffe 1.0.7 is MAJOR step forward.
> The number change 1.0.6->1.0.7 doesn't show how much effort was put
> into it since previous release.
> 
> Oh - and it is being ported to all Debian architectures (just released
> Woody has 11 of them).
> 
> While we're at it - what's the status of ports of SableVM?
> >From what I could read using that ugly SF archive - it works on i386
> and Alpha. Any others? Are there plans/people working on new ones?

I have personally only built it on x86.  The code of SableVM (I can't
speak for Classpath) has been desinged to work, with minimal changes
in 3 files, to any POSIX platform very easily. The only caveat: On
multi-processors, SableVM assumes a strong memory model (i.e. cache
coherency).  Weak memory models are not supported, but this shouldn't
be a big limitation, as currently, the JVM specification is broken in
this regard.

I will let users take care of porting to different architectures, as I
do not have the machines to test other architectures.  In the fall, I
will have Sun machines, so I'll port it there at that point.

Etienne


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