Other architectures?

[k.j.koster at telecom.tno.nl]

Dear Tom,

> 
> ...
> > > > 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.
>
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

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