"new" findLoadedClass()/USE_VM_CACHE VM interface (Was: JamVM and CVS head)

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 09:26 +0100, Robert Lougher wrote:
> It can be fixed by adding the line:
> 
>   static boolean USE_VM_CACHE = true;
> 
> JamVM already implements findLoadedClass natively, so this is all that is
> needed to turn it on.

The change that Robert mentions was discussed on the classpath-patches
list here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath-patches/2005-07/msg00402.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath-patches/2005-07/msg00410.html

I had assumed that old runtimes would start out with USE_VM_CACHE =
false since that gives them the old (pre 0.17+cvs) behavior. So I
wondered why/how Robert had seen the future and pro-actively added the
right infrastructure for JamVM. As it happens Robert, David Holmes and
Archie Cobbs already discussed this idea a year ago. It makes for an
interesting read:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2004-03/msg00177.html

Cheers,

Mark
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