Re: Vortext

From: Craig Chambers (chambers@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 13:48:28 PST

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    Philippe Laporte wrote:
    >
    > Craig Chambers wrote:
    >
    > >Vortex is intended to compile Java classes to a native, standalone executable.
    > >It supports only the core libraries, which excludes awt and swing, and it does
    > >not support JNI. It probably wouldn't be hard to add JNI support, but
    > >supporting all the other Java libraries might be a lot of work.
    > >
    > >-- Craig Chambers
    > >
    > >
    > >Philippe Laporte wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > >>Hi,
    > >> I found a link to you regarding a Vortex Java compilation product.
    > >>
    > >>I am currently investigating precompiling the core class libraries to
    > >>native for the SUN JDK. My purpose is that 20 or so Mozillas would run
    > >>on the same system, each starting a JVM, but I would like to have a
    > >>single copy of the core classes system-wide.
    > >>
    > >>How hard would it be to have Vortex generate code for the SUN VM 1.3.1
    > >>interpreted/JNI mode?
    > >>
    > >>Thanks a lot,
    > >>
    > >>--
    > >>Philippe Laporte
    > >>
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    > Hi,
    > I'm not sure I was correctly understood. What I mean is to produce
    > native code that can be linked into the SUN JVM.
    >
    > Thanks a lot,
    > --
    >
    > Philippe Laporte
    >
    > Software Engineer
    >
    > WorldGate
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    I have no experience using the Sun JVM or linking code into it. You'd have to
    run your own experiments. But Vortex uses its own run-time system and garbage
    collector, so I suspect it would not be easy to make it compatible.

    -- Craig Chambers
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