SquirrelJME/SquirrelJME

# 2014/11/09

***DISCLAIMER***: _These notes are from the defunct k8 project which_
_precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26!_
_The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such_
_all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no_
_longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it._

## 05:06

Having everything lock on ClassFile is bad for concurrency.

## 08:12

And since this code will be in the kernel where it may be executed by tons of
things at once, I need better locking than the current synchronized. A
read/write lock will be good so that classes as needed can access the stuff,
then their locks can be grabbed depending on the situation.

## 09:58

I could expand the locks rather than have global locks and use stuff for
individual members and such, if that is ever needed.

## 15:24

Need a better way to specify how architecture and compilation works, the
current MethodCompiler is rather weak and the sorting is a bit bad. I will
need a sub-package containing all the good meta annotations attached to a
compiler so that things can get a bit easier as the generic code generators
could just snatch to a specific target with specific feature sets. However,
some CPU feature sets might have stuff like floating point support, a division
instruction, more registers, or a larger address space. So stuff pertaining to
this cannot readily be put into annotations at all.

## 19:06

I figured out a name for the future JavaScript engine I have to write, I shall
call it "catpuke" since it seems only a fitting name for terrible language.
However, despite the name I would still make the engine awesome and well
coded, along with possible recompilation with the current compilation system I
am using right now.

## 19:19

One idea would be something like the shebang of files being the file
interpreter, which executes the script engine. And speaking of script engines,
if there can be a JavaScript one then I am making a UNIX shell script one
since shell is rather nice.