[Mono-devel-list] Who is doing SPARC

[Belbin, Peter]

Any idea when the next packaged release will be due?

I've been trying the SPARC mint, and am hoping that the JIT will be able to
give better performance.....



-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel de Icaza [mailto:miguel at ximian.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:03 PM
To: Wayne.Arenz at gd-ais.com
Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Who is doing SPARC


> In a private conversation early Feb., Miguel said to me:
> "There is no JIT for the SPARC yet.  Eventually we will have a simple
> to install Solaris package, but we cant really do this before the Mono
> 1.0 time frame."
>  
> We (my office) have managed to get mono-mint running on a
> SPARC/Solaris 8, just as the go-mono homepage right-side column
> "Interpreter" entry.

CVS support a JIT engine, but you probably want to wait for an official
release.

> However, WHO is doing the Sparc work?  For that matter, who ELSE is
> doing Sparc work?  How might I learn better where that branch of work
> stands, time tables, where I can get help, etc., etc.?

Zoltan Varga is doing it, the JIT became feature complete this week, but
as always, some work on polishing, tuning and fixes will be required.
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