[armedbear-devel] Some thoughts on classloaders, inner classes and in-memory compilation

[Mark Evenson]

On 9/22/09 4:52 PM, Alessio Stalla wrote:
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> I think that, as a personal experiment, I'll start changing the
> implementation of LOAD-COMPILED-FUNCTION to just do something like
> (pseudocode) new
> 'sys::*compiler-classloader-class*'().loadClass("dir-1.cls"), move the
> current loadCompiledFunction to, say,
> AbclSystemFileClassLoader.findClass(), and change the compiler to stop
> emitting loadCompiledFunction calls and refer to the class directly
> instead. That should preserve the current behavior yet demonstrate my
> solution. If it turns out to be working and actually simplifying
> things, I will report back and, as a next step, go on and try to add
> the ability to work in memory.

Great!  I think experimentation with the codebase is a great way to 
proceed, but hopefully you aren't deterred from posting your musings 
here.  I, for one, really appreciate both!

Mark

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