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ReadyTalk / avian

avian

[INACTIVE] Avian is a lightweight virtual machine and class library designed to provide a useful subset of Java's features, suitable for building self-contained applications.

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[INACTIVE] Avian is a lightweight virtual machine and class library designed to provide a useful subset of Java's features, suitable for building self-contained applications.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	0	3
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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joel_dice·Jul 16, 2020

On the topic of inactive continuation implementations for Java: I implemented native support for both delimited (shift/reset) and non-delimited (call/cc) continuations in the Avian JVM. See https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian/blob/master/test/extra/Co... for some mind-bending examples.

In Continuations by example: Exceptions, time-traveling search, threads, and more

sitkack·Nov 26, 2017

You might try Avian or Multi-OS Engine for embedding a JVM within your program. [0] https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian [1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/multi-os-engine

In Carp, a compiled Lisp with type inference and a borrow checker

ece·Aug 19, 2017

I believe you are right. Azul has released a JIT compiler based on llvm: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3193078/java/azul-introduce... Also: https://www.excelsiorjet.com/ and there seem to be open source projects like vmkit, https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian that are somewhere in between.

In Reasonable Scala Compiler

bcg1·Nov 3, 2015

I was wondering why no one mentioned Avian... I'm not a mobile developer so I wasn't sure, but I thought that it does the same thing essentially. Avian is a fantastic platform and the maintainers are true friends of free software, even though their license is as permissive as you can possibly get. https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian

In RoboVM Is No Longer Open-Source

dkharrat·Oct 24, 2015

Not entirely sure, but according to its github page[1], you can have it use the OpenJDK classes for a "conventional JVM". [1] https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian#building-with-the-openjdk...

In Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android

mwcampbell·Jun 1, 2015

I'd like to propose a different approach to that problem, one that also addresses the issue of startup time: a boot image. I got the name from the Avian JVM (https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian), but a similar concept can be seen at least as far back as GNU Emacs in the 90s. The idea is that as part of the build process, you load all of a program's code and initial data into memory, then dump the heap. Then at startup, you just have to map the heap back into memory, and possibly fix up pointers if you can't load everything at the same address as before. Of course, you'd have to make sure that none of the objects in the saved heap contain handles to external resources like files. Also, for PyPy, which is JIT-compiling a language that's not really amenable to static compilation, the boot image initialization process could include a custom sc

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ript to run functions that are known to be hot, to warm up the JIT compiler and include the compiled code in the boot image.

In PyPy 2.6.0 released

ausjke·Sep 22, 2014

Used jamvm in some osgi products and it works well. however I never heard about Avian (http://oss.readytalk.com/avian/ https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian) and it does look interesting. a table of all JVMs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Java_virtual_mach...

In JamVM – A compact Java Virtual Machine

octo_t·Jun 19, 2013

Simon Ochsenreither has been investing a fair amount of resources into Avian[1], an alternative JVM with support for tailcalls and various other useful toys. I think this is possibly where languages like Scala may lead, potentially forking a JVM and refitting it to their own needs. [1] - https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian/

In The JVM situation

alter8·Jul 21, 2012Submission

Avian: subset of Java for building self-contained applications

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