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
