07:54
CacheState will need some global state such as for the stack and such.
10:59
I believe a future goal would be to condense the build specific projects into the standard librares and such so that SquirrelJME is self hosting. Also I can have a replacement system for build system specific things so that libraries that purely depend on a SquirrelJME environment do not fail.
11:00
Another thing I need is a benchmark so I can gauge how the code operates. I
suppose for now the benchmark would be a simple one that calculates some
benchmark algorithm for the primitive types. Also, for the SquirrelJME class
I was thinking again of the service specific method. Basically it would be as
the following: public static <C> C systemService(Class<C> __cl) which would
have only a singular set of system specific services. So for example for the
LCDUI engine the class sent would be DisplayEngineProvider. The service
loader could be used as is currently, however that would be unreliable and
would require the classes implement some kind of priority or replacement
system. At least the system specific services could be well defined.
11:09
Actually my idea on the build system could be done now, since it is quite simple. I am not performing a major rewrite at all. Having symlinks are nice but they are not as portable as they should be, so as such they should be removed and the build setup should not rely on them at all. Also, Fossil does not have support for them on non-UNIX platforms. Also symlinks would hurt self hosting because systems such as Mac OS Class or Palm OS do not support them. I do know these systems are old, but the major thing is Windows.
11:11
So essentially, this would also remove the build depends thing too. The
lookup for a project will check the build directory first. If that directory
lacks a project then it will fallback to the standard apis, mids, and
libs and locate one. The fallback ones will be treated as a single namespace
and the build as a single one also. Then for projects such as cldc and
cldc-compact, they will just be bare minimum classes. I can also move the
software floating point code out of unsafe and have it in a standard library.
To the VM, as long as the class exists in the classpath it does not matter if
it is in cldc-compact or not.
11:35
Ok so that makes things much easier now, I do not need to manage two sets of
dependencies, which will be a good thing. I just now need to move the stuff
from build to the appropriate places.
12:07
Maybe this means I can get the doclet generator working again perhaps.
12:15
Well wow, there was a dependency on SortedTreeMap but it was only in an import. Also the cldc-compact project depended on it (well what was previously the virtual unsafe support).
12:17
So now I have no symlinks.
17:16
So MIPSRegister nextArgument(MIPSRegister __r) should be simple to use.