Comments on: Blackdown Java for PowerPC Status

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:33:17 +0000

How much money would it approx. take to get 1.5 ready?

Regards,
Jacob

By: Dalibor Topic

Dalibor Topic — Mon, 09 May 2005 15:15:21 +0000

For what it’s worth, Kaffe also has a ppc jit that needs someone to invest a bit of time to fix the issues exposed by our jit test suite. That should not be too hard for someone familar with ppc assembler, and it should give you a 10 time performance boost over the interpreter, which works very nicely, although slowly on ppc-linux and ppc-darwin.

A hotspot-like (and comparable on performance) engine from a Kaffe fork called Latte would also be available for picking up and fitting into the current code, if someone volunteers to do it right now.

First experiments of on using 1.5-ish features on Kaffe have been successful, but yeah, good code does not write itself so if you are intersted in hacking on an open source implementation, hop onto irc://irc.freenode.org:#kaffe .

cheers,
dalibor topic

By: Stephan Michels

Stephan Michels — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 08:05:43 +0000

These are great news, that at least someone working on it. I have a Mac Mini at home, which is more or less useless, because I can’t develop my Java projects on it, which are using Java 1.5 Features.

A big thank you and the people of the Blackdown team from me.