Re: Java Illusion (fwd)

[Gregory Maxwell <nullc@nightshade.z.ml.org>]

Joe, Should we maby be looking towards Obj-C? 

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Joe Vaughan wrote:

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> > On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, John Mark Clayton wrote:
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> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I've skimmed the Project Mnemonic web pages.  I like the idea of a thinner
> > > web browser.  I'd be happy to provide my multi-platform run-time linking
> > > code.  I'd also be willing to impliment it as long as someone sends me the
> > > relevant source code.  Add me to the maillist discussing this capability.
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> I'd be very interested in seeing your design for this.
> 
> I'm primarily the one doing the dynamic module loading stuff for 
> mnemonic, and in recent times, I've been having nightmares about ELF 
> dynamic loading.
> 
> There is one simple reason why I believe now that using dynamic 
> library typew files won't work well in the real world and that is 
> that is precludes the possibility of making a proper statically 
> linked core that dynamically loads objects at runtime.
> 
> This is almost a necessity judging from recent remarks in the 
> mnemonic dev mailing list about making mnemonic run on platforms that 
> for instance don't have thread libraries. 
> 
> Does your design allow for a static binary, dynamically loading 
> modules at runtime ??? 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Joe Vaughan
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