From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM
Date: 1997/09/13
Date: 1997-09-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.874165896@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34196E8E.1790@gsfc.nasa.gov
Stephe says
<<This sounds like you are NOT planning on adapting the backend of gcc to
write JVM byte codes, but are instead implementing a new backend in Ada.
This is cool! Will this backend be as data-driven as gcc? What I really
want to know is; will I be able to adapt the new backend to my flight
processor, and abandon gcc? gcc is great, but adapting it means writing
K&R level C; I'd much rather be writing Ada95!>>
That's right -- making GCC produce JVM byte code makes no sense, since the
level of abstraction is quite wrong. What we are doing is a completely new
backend that generates JVM from the GNAT tree.
As to your question about adaptation, if you believe that going through
JVM and JIT compilers etc can yieled acceptably efficient code then indeed
you can follow this path (and perhaps you can also get a job as a publicity
agent for Sun :-)
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1997-09-11 0:00 ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Jay Han
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Mark L. Fussell
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-23 0:00 ` multi-language to JVM compilers? W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-19 0:00 ` translating to Ada, was Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM Tom Moran
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1997-09-15 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-20 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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