Stackless/microthreads merge news

[Martijn Faassen]

Will Ware <wware at world.std.com> wrote:
> Richard Jones (Richard.Jones at fulcrum.com.au) wrote:
>> Please try to modify the Blackdown JVM rather than Kaffe - it's faster and 
>> ... well ... it actually works ... and it's Sun supported ... and stuff ...

> Blackdown might be a better way to go. I had been trying to remember
> where there was a source-available JVM and I forgot all about them,
> inspite of being a Linux nut for jeez, five years now! Doh! The Sun-
> supported part is obviously valuable, if part of the goal is to
> influence Sun, and as far as I'm aware, Blackdown is the official JVM
> for Linux.

Yeah! Do work for Sun for free, then give it all to Sun! 
Blackdown may be source available, but it isn't open source. I tend to
consider that before I spend any time with anybody else's source code.
Anyway, if you do want to influence Sun, you could do that. But I don't think
you could make microthreads a Java standard that easily; Sun can try to
adopt it, but then *all* the other JVM implementors will howl that Sun
keeps changing the standard, that Sun wants to kill all other JVMs, and
so on. Sun will say it's innovating. And they'd all be right.

So Sun will think hard before it'd do this, even if it's thrown into its
lap. Unless you're sure a stackless, microthreaded JVM won't introduce any
incompatibilities, of course.

Regards,

Martijn
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