Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:10:30 +0200 From: <k.j.koster@telecom.tno.nl> To: <tom@sdf.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Other architectures? Message-ID: <0DD8055E0FECF744B5FF8053F80C4A2D1AD4AF@l07.oase.research.kpn.com>
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Dear Tom, >=20 > ... > > > > beta out for 1.4.1 for quite some time. Alpha is harder,=20 > > > > but certainly not impossible. > > > > > The limiting factor for Alpha is to find someone who can write the > > native method invocations in Alpha assembler. This should=20 > be a day or > > two work for someone who's proficient in Alpha assembler. I did some > > of the groundwork (basic stuff) and wrote a little about it=20 > on my web > > site (http://www.kjkoster.org/java/). >=20 > But that would just be for native method invocation. =20 > Wouldn't Hotspot > would require considerable more work? Not that I'm proposing any such > thing for a discontinued architecture... sparc64 would be interesting > though. > Ah, yes. I keep forgetting. My statement was true in the time when 1.2.2 = was the stable Java version. Please disregard my misinformed post. Sparc64 would indeed be interesting. Porting HotSpot will prove hard = even on that platform, if I must believe the post by Bill Huey. He = worked on the HotSpot port for a while and found the code ... = challenging. :) Kees Jan =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D You can't have everything. Where would you put it? [Steven Wright]
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