Fri, 27 Jan 2006
Frysk
I was looking around today and noticed that Frysk has a redesigned web page. Looking good!
The "questions" page seems to be fleshed out a bit more, at least as compared to what I remember. For one thing it is a lot clearer about the relative strengths of frysk and gdb. Nice job guys.
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Context-threading
Graydon pointed me at a paper on context threading, a somewhat different way to organize an interpreter. It is a nice trick -- subroutine threading with a twist, or a baby step toward JITting. It is a way to avoid trashing the pipeline, which happens in an ordinary interpreter due to all the unpredictable branching. Unfortunately I don't think this would work well for gij, due to the way we handle exceptions; a problem that also affects most of the JITs we've considered embedding. Andrew has talked occasionally of changing our exception handling approach, that is looking more and more necessary.
Java Language FutureHere's the presentation on the future of the Java Language that I saw part of while I was in Brazil. It is interesting for the most part. The XML bits are fairly weird.
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