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Re: alloca and native code

To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: alloca and native code
From: Jeff Sturm <jeff dot sturm at appnet dot com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:48:07 -0400
CC: tromey at cygnus dot com, Oskar Liljeblad <osk at hem dot passagen dot se>, java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Organization: AppNet Inc.
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Andrew Haley wrote:
> It would be nice if we didn't do this in embedded systems, since it
> breaks the nice property that Java aprograms have small stacks, and
> the stack is only scanned conservatively.  We ought to question if
> this is a performance win on any system.

Agreed.  GC techniques are getting very good; tricks like stack allocation don't
seem like such a good idea as they once were.

--
Jeff Sturm
jeff.sturm@appnet.com

References:
- alloca and native code
  - From: Oskar Liljeblad
- Re: alloca and native code
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: alloca and native code
  - From: Andrew Haley

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