sablevm

[Tupshin Harper]

Has anybody involved in parrot taken a look at SableVM? It's an
interesting Java VM, done as a doctoral thesis.
http://www.sablevm.org

The thesis covers some interesting optimizations(don't know if any could
apply to parrot).
http://www.info.uqam.ca/%7Eegagnon/gagnon-phd.pdf

-Tupshin

[Leopold Toetsch]

Tupshin Harper wrote:

> Has anybody involved in parrot taken a look at SableVM? It's an
> interesting Java VM, done as a doctoral thesis.
> http://www.sablevm.org

I had it downloaded some time ago, but not much more.

> The thesis covers some interesting optimizations(don't know if any could
> apply to parrot).
> http://www.info.uqam.ca/%7Eegagnon/gagnon-phd.pdf

Thanks for the link. This seem to be quite interesting in some aspects.
- inline threading could be an alternative for architectures, where no
JIT is available (direct threading is our CGP run loop). But probably
just optimizing the code (what they don't seem to do) would gain more speed.
- the vtable approach and threads implementation seems to be quite
interesting, though I don't know anything about these.

> -Tupshin

leo