Re: [Sablevm-developer] On the 1.1.1 release and further

[David <db...@cs...>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:04:09AM -0500, Etienne Gagnon wrote:
> Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> >Another thing is SableJIT release. It's up to David when it happens,
> >but I think we shouldn't wait too long with releasing this code as a
> >_development_ release. We can even do it along 1.1.1, why not? I think
> >that this way David (and we all) could get some bugreports from the
> >users or/and gain confidence that SableJIT is actually usable in
> >the real, wild world ;-) And for some people word "JIT" is magical...
>=20
> I do not want to see SableJIT code under the /sablevm project tree befo=
re
> the interface to the JIT is cleaned up and made into a minimal one,
> instead of the "scattered all over the place" current status [unless I
> am wrong and this has already been fixed].

It is getting smaller and smaller but not minimal yet.

Agree with the SableJIT "add-on".

David

> I really want SableVM's source
> code to remain as clean and easy to read/modify as possible.
>=20
> I see SableJIT as an "add-on".  It's source code should reside mostly
> (i.e. 99,9%) under the /sablejit project tree.  The additional 0.1% sho=
uld
> really be some very minimal changes in very few files (and very few pla=
ces)
> in SableVM's source code.
>=20
> SableVM's inlined engine should remain the default interpreter engine, =
as
> it is by far the most portable engine, and even sometimes the fastest
> engine.  But, I am all in favor of making SableJIT an official add-on t=
hat
> is released along SableVM, and set the build scripts so that a configur=
e
> option would actually generate a SableVM+SableJIT combination (but not =
by
> default).
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> So, in the long term, I do not see the /sablejit tree disappearing.  I =
think
> that SableJIT should remain distributed separately in sablejit-x.y.z.ta=
r.gz
> (where x.y.z matches sablevm's & sablevm-classpath's).
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> Etienne
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