2017/05/30

15:30

Ok so the main part of the JIT initialization would be handling the options for it. One thing I can do is have normalization of options in the base class rather than via extended classes with map modifications and such. Alternatively the options can be treated the same like the manifest with actual key types and then value types. These would be normalized to lowercase and such so I do not have to worry about strings being messed up and such. There could also be sorting and categorization based on major and minor values at least for keys.

20:24

I purchased a new old laptop, a Dell Latitude E6400. Although it is a x86 laptop with an Intel CPU, it appears to be very well supported by Linux. It is faster than my PowerBook G4, has more memory, and has two CPUs. Also, x86 is a bit more compatible with things. Sad as me to say it but recently software has been having some difficulties with my PowerBook G4. Browsing the web is very slow because there is no JIT for Javascript in Firefox, QEMU stopped working and does not run anything (I need this to run things). The only draw back to a Core 2 Duo is that there is no virtualization, although I would like this, emulation would have to be good enough. In retrospect I am not really going to use virtualization daily so it is not too much of a problem. However QEMU has a JIT in it which recompiles the code to run on native x86 systems, so it is not really that slow. Also gives me access to Wine which I need to run Windows software. There are also emulators for systems even PowerPC ones which only run on x86. So really in order to help the development of SquirrelJME, I have to switch. The new laptop has about one and a half times the clock speed of this system. However with Linux I can always use LXC to create emulated containers for running system specific things or I can have dedicated virtual machines.

20:51

For the target builder I should allow multiple configurations to be passed so I can say something like target linux-mips games which includes the games that are available. Also potentially I can include project names or JARs which are injected into the runtime and their dependencies. Basically if it is not a template it will check the project list for inclusion. This way I can have a dynamic set of executables. However the basic default for all systems will be a bare minimum setup with nothing extra at all. There would be the full target which has for the most part every single available project which makes sense and is not platform dependent.