[freenet-tech] Technology / Features

Sun Mar 3 14:48:00 GMT 2002

Mark Wielaard wrote:
>On Fri, 2002年03月01日 at 08:30, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
>>>The cool thing about GCJ is that there arn't any bootstrapping issues 
>>for JITs written in Java. Come to think of it, I wonder why Tom wrote 
>>the verifier in C++ ;-)
>>>>OK, I will show my ignorance. Is there actually a real reason that the
>verifier is written in C++. I see the smiley but don't know how to
>interpret it in this situation. Having a verifier written in java would
>be a very nice thing since then we could integrate it with ClassLoader
>so other VMs don't have to implement their own verification.
>
There are a couple of verifiers written in Java that I know about. 
Kresten Krab Thorup (who wrote the libgcj interpreter) wrote one:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q3/msg00118.html
I think we never integrated it into libgcj mainly because he was a bit 
dissapointed with its performance when compiled with gcj, but gcj sucked 
a lot more back then than it does now ;-)
There is also another one called JustIce: 
http://bcel.sourceforge.net/(click on JustIce)
regards
Bryce.