[pypy-dev] PyPy JVM Backend

[Maciek Fijalkowski]

Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote:
> Hi Anto!
>
> Antonio Cuni wrote:
>  > I agree, and this is why I mentioned the problem :-).
>  >
>  > I think there are two ways to make it working:
>  >
>  >   1) write a dummy CliFile (or JvmFile) subclass of stream, then
>  > special-case that class in the backend to map directly to
>  > System.Io.FileStream (or the Java equivalent)
>  >
>  >   2) make CliFile or JvmFile real classes, using the interpret-level
>  > bindings to forward the methods;
>
> This is indeed the solution that I had in mind. Of course I forgot that
> there are no interpreter-level bindings for Java yet, how hard would it
> be to get them? We will need them anyway later. And writing them might
> still be less work than writing the file descriptor implementation.
>   
Part of it is a SoC anyway, so I don't think we care in what order SoC 
is done. (and personally I think it makes sense to provide Java bindings 
first and than to care about the translation).