Metacircular Research Platform Blog from March, 2009

MRP is listing a project for mentoring via the Apache Software Foundation and Apache Harmony:
http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/Google_Summer_Of_Code_2009_Projects_Proposals.

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Jikes RVM - 88% Java, 5% C, 3% Other

MRP - 90% Java, 4% Other

A comparison of MRP with the RVM on March 18th showed that MRP is slowly removing legacy C code, more recently C code was added to introduce Windows support, less C code is used in the execution of MRP. Statistics from Ohloh.

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New bootloader takes shapes

Recent changes have refactored and substantially rewritten the bootloader from the RVM. MRP now has less architecture specific C code than the RVM (~400lines vs. ~1200lines) and this code is also more extensively documented. These changes also fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks.

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