Re: [DotGNU]Intro

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Sunday 20 April 2003 12:42 am, Sridhar Vasudevan wrote:
> Hello Everyone,

Welcome!

> Rhys....NB suggested you can guide me to an area for starters. At irc we
> talked about a JIT or some work on the threading.

JIT/threading may be jumping in at the deep end a bit, but if you're game, 
then I won't stand in your way. :-)

There are quite a few TODO's in the internalcall layer of the runtime engine 
at the moment (grep for TODO in the "lib_*.c files in pnet/engine).  
Internalcalls are the .NET equivalent of native methods in Java.  That's an 
easy place to start, to get a feel for some of the engine.  Then work up 
through the CVM coder (cvmc.c) and CVM interpreter.  For a JIT, you'll need 
to write a coder that generates native code instead of bytecode.  The 
"pnet/engine/HACKING" file is a good read also.

And we can always use help implementing and testing the C# library.  Anyone 
with good Java coding skills shouldn't have any trouble with that.  "grep 
TODO" and have fun!

Cheers,

Rhys.