Re: Java connected Lisp

Scott Burson wrote:
Pascal Costanza, are you reading this? Back in 2002 you mentioned
that you were developing a JVM that worked (if I understand correctly)
by translating JVM bytecodes to CL and handing the result to the CL
compiler. It has long seemed to me that this would be a useful thing,
allowing Lisp and Java to call each other at function-call speed. Did
you get very far?

No, I have never finished that project due to time restrictions. The basic JIT compiler worked, but you need to do a lot more to make a JVM work.

If anyone is interested in picking this up, they can have the source code. But if I recall correctly, there is at least one other project that does a similar thing and got further than mine.


Pascal

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