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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would think that the biggest problem is
going to come from a lack of GNU infrastructure.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do you have gcc and gnu make working on that
platform? If you've got that in place,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>given that 64-bit ports have already been done, an
interpreter port ought not to be too</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>difficult. A JIT3 implementation for
the SV1 processor would be a lot of work, considering</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>that most non-x86 JIT3 ports are currently failing
at least one regression test, but might</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>be worth spending some effort, since even with a
JIT, I would expect kaffe to run like sludge </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>on a Cray </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>scalar
unit. If you can figure out a practical way to use the vector units
for</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Java interpretation or JITting, I can pretty much
guarantee you a doctorate from any</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>one of a number of leading computer science
schools. ;o)</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=winrunnerpro@yahoo.com href="mailto:winrunnerpro@yahoo.com">Babar</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=kaffe@kaffe.org
href="mailto:kaffe@kaffe.org">kaffe@kaffe.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 08, 2003 7:54
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [kaffe] Porting Kaffe on
Cray</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>Thank you Tony and Kevin for all valuable suggestions. The
machine is Cray SV1 and UNIX version running on this machine is UNICOS. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I am just looking into different issues right now before we start working
on porting it.</DIV>
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<DIV>-- Babar</DIV>
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