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Date:      Tue, 2 Mar 1999 00:28:04 +0800 (CST)
From:      Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
To:        pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za, shudoh@muraoka.info.waseda.ac.jp
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: JITs for FreeBSD (was Re: somewhat new to java questions)
Message-ID:  <199903011628.AAA11448@netrinsics.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9903010725330.72244-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za>

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Peter van Heusden <pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za> writes:
>Might do, but as far as I know, some of the HotSpot techniques are merely
>extensions of what was already done in the Self programming environment
>(http://self.smli.com, as I recall). Papers on Self, and the Self source
>code, are freely available.

Yes, but considering that the original Self team has been working on Hotspot
for over two years, and it's still vaporware despite Sun's very prominent 
hype of it, I'd conclude that porting the Self technology to Java is not a 
project to be undertaken lightly by amateurs.

	-Michael Robinson



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