Re: VMFile confusion

[Michael Koch]

Am Sonntag, 25. April 2004 13:40 schrieb David P Grove:
> And if your VM is sufficiently weird enough (Jikes RVM with m-n
> threading), then you might actually want to do something different
> about files.  We used to have our own version of FileDescriptor and
> do non-blocking I/O with hooks back into our threading layer instead
> of using the default classpath implementation.  This got out of sync
> with classpath at some point and we don't use it currently, but
> something like it will come back eventually.
>
> On VMFoo vs. NativeFoo vs. PlatformFoo, I really don't care.  I only
> observe that one person's VMFoo is another person's native/platfrom
> so perhaps it makes sense to just pick one name (VM) and leave it.  I
> suspect you are unlikely to be able to "nicely" divide the classes
> along these lines so why waste any intellectual effort (and silly
> flame wars) arguing about whether something is a VMFoo vs a
> NativeFoo.

That's the best mail I read about this so far. Thx.


Michael