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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:21:19 -0800
From:      Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
To:        Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>
Cc:        Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [press@apache.org: PRESS RELEASE: ASF Reaches Agreement with Sun to  Allow Open Source Java Implementations]
Message-ID:  <20020330002119.GA1537@gnuppy.monkey.org>
In-Reply-To: <1017419202.5814.1933.camel@dhcppc2>
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 09:59:10AM -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
> I don't know off the top of my head.  If you ask on java@gcc.gnu.org I'm
> sure you'll get plenty of good answers.

Last time I looked, I didn't think that the Boehm GC was terribly
modern and support either generational or incremental collection.:

> > Is it JNI compatible BTW ? 
> 
> Yes.  We also have a unique, and much faster native code interface
> called CNI if you can afford to lose portability.

At what price ? The JNI layer is heavy weight for a reason. And that's
to provide direct access directly invoke methods so that stuff like
RMI, etc... can happen in terms of the JVM itself so that it's transparent
to runtime typing system.

What about class reflection ?

bill


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