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| author | Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org> | 2001-08-07 05:40:26 +0400 |
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| committer | Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org> | 2001-08-07 05:40:26 +0400 |
| commit | 70f5d8e095185221447a15727270bd29387df03b (patch) | |
| tree | 85292a8f417cb694ecf53d42b9f361492d4bf7e2 /doc/runtime | |
| parent | 825f207690ebb6760a855e46bca7106a6c4e4c63 (diff) | |
Update docs
svn path=/trunk/mono/; revision=423
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/runtime b/doc/runtime index f377ab35d99..7217abfa83f 100644 --- a/doc/runtime +++ b/doc/runtime @@ -20,15 +20,15 @@ <ul> - * Milestone 1: Fully read and parse all CIL byte-codes - and metadata tokens (ie, a disassembler). + * Milestone 1: <b> Done</b> Fully read and parse all CIL byte-codes + and metadata tokens (ie, a disassembler). * Milestone 2: Complete an interpreter for CIL byte codes. This interpreter can be used temporarly to run CIL byte code on a system where no JIT is available. - * Milestone 3: Define an <i>lburg</i> instruction + * Milestone 3: Define an <i>lburg</i>-like instruction selector for the JITer for Intel. Although slower at JITing than a streaming JITer, it generates better code. The same grammar can later be used for @@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471941484/o/qid=992556433/sr=2-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/103-5866388-0492603">Garbage Collection.</a> + Another consideration is to use the same interface that ORP + uses to its Garbage Collection system and reuse that GC system + instead of rolling our own, as the ORP system is pretty advanced + and is independent of the rest of ORP. + Although using a conservative garbage collector like Bohem's would work, all the type information is available at runtime, so we can actually implement a better collector than a @@ -114,7 +119,6 @@ Paolo Molaro found a few interesting links: <ul> - * On compilation of stack-based languages:<br> <a href="http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/rafts.html"> http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/rafts.html</a> @@ -131,11 +135,10 @@ ** PInvoke - PInvoke will be supported, and will be used to wrap Unix API - calls, these in turn are required for reusing some of the - GNOME libraries that will reduce the work we have to do to - deliver a complete class library. + PInvoke is the mechanism we are using to wrap Unix API calls + as well as talking to system libraries. - To implement PInvoke we are looking into using the <a - href="http://sources.redhat.com/libffi">Foreign Function - Interface</a> Library from Cygnus. + We hvae implemented PInvoke through libffi, but we are likely + going to roll our own system as the runtime matures, specially + as the interpreter is approaching completion, and we move into + the JITer. |