Re: 0.10 snapshot release (Was: RFC: Require VM to provide JNI 1.2 support?)

[Steven Augart]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
 On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 12:25, Robert Lougher wrote:
> > Any idea when Classpath 0.10 will be out?
>
>
> If we follow the two month schedule (and I see no reason not to, since
> so many cool new things have been added since 0.10) then I would like to
> have a release end of next week/start of next month.

This seems like a good plan to me.  I would like to get
dynamic-portable-native-sync-1.patch (submitted to commit-classpath
on June 19th) approved before then, so that Jikes RVM will be able to use
the same Classpath build as the other VMs that use stock classpath.  This
patch (for those of you who don't read commit-classpath) makes Classpath
choose its glib threading implementation based upon the value of a Java
system property, rather than using the build-time option
--with-portable-native-sync.

I will also fix the outstanding AIX building problem so that
Classpath 0.10 can work on AIX again.

Finally, I hope to provide a second patch for the NIO code so that we pass
the native file descriptor into C as an argument, rather than retrieving
it via (expensive) JNI operations.  Dave Grove thinks that this will probably
fix most of the remaining 5% performance penalty we suffered when we went
over to the java.nio-based java.io system.

--Steve Augart

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