Re: [jamboost] Re: [BBv2] [msvc] scoping interest for other extensions

From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-16 09:00:51

Reece Dunn wrote:
> 
>>feature architecture :
> 
> ...
> 
>> # CLR CIL
>> clr
>> # Java byte code
>> java
>> : propagated optional ;
> 
> 
> Do we even need the clr/java bytecode separation? Could we have 
> <architecture>bytecode, and have .NET/Mono compilers generate CLR and 
> Java compilers generate Java bytecode.
> 
They are different bytecodes and different architectures. There's an 
effort to make a PHP5 compiler to CIL. The same compiler/toolset could 
potentially compile PHP5 into Java bytecode and native x86 and amd64 
code too. So we need a way to select among them.

Andrey