Other architectures?

Tom Samplonius tom at sdf.com
Mon Apr 14 23:15:38 PDT 2003


On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 k.j.koster at telecom.tno.nl wrote:

...
> > > beta out for 1.4.1 for quite some time.  Alpha is harder, 
> > > 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 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 on my web
> site (http://www.kjkoster.org/java/).

  But that would just be for native method invocation.  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.

...
>     Kees Jan
> 
> =====================================================
>  You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?
>                                      [Steven Wright]
> 
> 

Tom



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