On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:19:25 +0100, "Gary Benson" <gbenson@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > Oisin Feeley wrote: > > I really appreciate the time that Gary took to clear up this > > confusion... > > No problem :) It's kind of a minefield! <snip more corrections> Second time's the charm ;) Thanks again Gary. I have made further corrections and the below is what will go out. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Developments#Erratum:_FWN.23133_.22Shark.22_is_a_JIT_not_a_VM Erratum: FWN#133 "Shark" is a JIT not a VM Gary Benson kindly corrected an error in FWN#133 "Java, So Many Free Choices"[1] which reported on the work being done by Red Hat engineers to expand the availability of a FOSS Java across more architectures. The gist of the correction is that Shark is not a Virtual Machine(VM) as stated in the article. Gary explained that OpenJDK is composed of a VM named HotSpot and a class library. HotSpot runs on a limited number of architectures and so there have been two independent attempts to increase VM coverage. One of these is pre-existing project named CACAO which is a VM whose maintainers are implementing the OpenJDK class interface. The other is a Red Hat initiative named zero to remove architecture-specific code from HotSpot in order to make compilation on diverse platforms easier. As zero is slow and in need of a JIT. This JIT could well end up being Shark. Thanks to Gary for taking the time to clarify this point. We encourage readers to correct important technical issues and misunderstandings and can be contacted via "news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue133#Java.2C_So_Many_Free_Choices -- Oisin Feeley http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OisinFeeley _______________________________________________ Fedora-news-list mailing list Fedora-news-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list
