Building and testing (original) (raw)

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Sun Apr 15 07:53:32 UTC 2018

Hi Nir,

On 14/04/2018 1:39 PM, Nir Lisker wrote:

Hello,

I'm interested in playing with generic specialization. I've a couple of

I don't think generic specialization is there is to play with yet.

points to ask about.

1. Building. Following the instructions on the wiki [1], after cloning, the file getsource.sh does not exist and the commands chmod u+x getsource.sh ./getsource.sh fail. I ignored this and continued with bash configure make images which complete successfully. Is this fine?

Yes. There is only a single repo now so we don't need get_source.sh any more. The wiki needs updating.

Cheers, David

2. Testing. I'm thinking of targeting my attempts at the JavaFX beans. Observable [2] demonstrates the type verbosity - each primitive type dictates type hierarchies just so that it can take or return its primitive value.

Would this area be considered a proper testing grounds for generic specialization? Can I expect to be able to replace all type hierarchies of primitives, such as the ones for ReadOnlyJavaBeanBooleanProperty [3] and ReadOnlyBooleanWrapper [4] with a single generic one, or is it too optimistic? [1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/valhalla/Main [2] https://download.java.net/java/earlyaccess/jdk11/docs/api/javafx.base/javafx/beans/Observable.html [3] https://download.java.net/java/earlyaccess/jdk11/docs/api/javafx.base/javafx/beans/property/adapter/ReadOnlyJavaBeanBooleanProperty.html [4] https://download.java.net/java/earlyaccess/jdk11/docs/api/javafx.base/javafx/beans/property/ReadOnlyBooleanWrapper.html Thanks, Nir

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