FW: [Sablevm-user] Greetings!

[Brent F. <bre...@xp...>]

Attached are some messages related to problems that certain JVM-targetted 
projects have had with the currently available JVM's:

1.  The Kawa (Scheme in Java) system has performance problems because
Continuations are not supported at the JVM level:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/kawa/1999/msg00006.html

2.  Note to Comp.Compilers about possible exporting of internal
JVM constructs for use in continuations:
http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/97-01-256

3.  This homework assignment refers to some instructor-created JVM code
that apparently helps support continuations (note:  haven't actually
read this code)
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/cs152/homework/sem.html

At any rate, it seems that a neat niche that SableVM might exploit
would be as a Java-compliant JVM that could also export access to its
internal state for use in implementing closures/continuations.  I'm going
to e-mail Per Bothner (the Kawa creator) to see his thoughts on how this
might be accomplished.

Thanks,

-Brent