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Re: Mailing List... where are you?


Per Bothner writes:
 > > As far as I know Kawa is a Scheme implementation *on top* of a
 > java > virtual machine, no?
 > 
 > Yes.
 > 
 > > What do you think, would it be possible to extend your > jvm in
 > such a way that it can also evaluate guile code?
 > 
 > First, Kawa is *not* a jvm; it *requires* a jvm.
 > 
Does it rely on the proprietary SUN class libs?

 > Secondly, it is not that easy to answer, because it depends on the
 > Guile code.  A major goal for Guile is as an extension language for
 > other programs, usually written in C or C++.  Hence an important
 > part of Guile is the low-level interface to C.
 > 
Exactly!

 > Similarly, a major for Kawa is as an extension langauge for other
 > programs, usually written in Java.  Hence an important part of Kawa
 > is the low-level interface to Java.
 > 
 > However, while you can link C/C++ libraries with Java, it is
 > difficult to provide an efficient and portable implementation of
 > the Guile C API for accessing Kawa objects from C.  It is easier if
 > you restrict yourself to a single Java implementation, such as
 > Cygnus's gc-based gcj.

What is the advantage of gcj over kaffe?

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Klaus Schilling