Re: Running Eclipse on Jikes RVM and Classpath (Prize money inside!)

[Michael Hind]

Mark,

        Thanks for encouring
this effort.

> - Jikes RVM (2.1.1): Starts Eclipse amazingly
fast. Only roadblock seems
> to be that it is not yet selfhosting. (It would be OK to use a non-free,
> proprietary VM to start the bootstrap, but after this it should be
able
> to bootstrap itself.)

If I understand you correctly, I think
we are currently doing what you say is "OK".    We
currently use a non-free JVM to build a boot image (a file containing the
memory image of the Jikes RVM).  Then to run an application we use
open free software to read the file and begin executing.  There is
no other JVM when the application (or Jikes RVM) is running, i.e., all
VM requests by the application and VM itself (Jikes RVM is written in Java)
are handled by Jikes RVM.

Since Jikes RVM is written in Java we
should be able to useJikes RVM for the offline step, building the boot
image, as well.  However, we haven't gotten there yet.

Mike

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Michael Hind, Manager, Dynamic Optimization Group, Jalapeño Project  
       
IBM Watson Research Center
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Jikes RVM open source release:  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikesrvm