2014/11/23

DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.

04:02

Well this new building code is much lighter, instead of 355 lines across 5 files and having stuff in util, this consists of a single file now. This is for at least what I did before.

20:29

Limiting planet creation to before comets exist is a rather poor idea because that complicates things. And splitting fields and memory into both volatile and optimized form makes things a bit better because it adds multiple ways the code generator can work with fields or memory addresses. Volatile is a never cache as usual while optimized caches the result so while sets are truly set the gets are from the cache. The optimized version has concurrency issues in that if another thread or a submethod messes with the value of the field then it will not be seen by the current method, it is a local optimization only. I am only pretty much going to use volatile only where the optimized version will be in rare use cases and in protected code cases.

23:17

OK, the SSA is going well but the Java byte code decoder is very ugly and messy currently. Well the main thing is that I do not know how it works based on never running it before, there are the specs which I do know but not the feel. So it might be better to just hold off the stuff for now and write an interpreter so that it can run on the existing virtual machine abliet slowly. Then once I get a feel for that I can then write the native compiler and will know how the code acts as such.

23:35

I believe the main thing is that I am having doubts about the Java compiler code. So the best thing I should do is to clean up my language transformer and make it actually better than it currently is. Right now it is a singleton which means I need a special and junk like that, quite ugly. So the best result would be to switch to a factory sort of setup which generates private classes for usage. Ever since I started writing that code I have been uneasy about it being a singleton, but it would be better as a factory.

23:43

This should also then be capable of removing MachineCodec as translation can be a bit more direct now.