Re: -X options?

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Linuxhippy writes:
 > Hello again,
 > 
 > >  -Xjitcache:PATH   set path for storing cached JIT compilations
 > >  -Xjitopts:OPTS    specify options to pass to JIT compiler
 > >
 > Wow - I did not know at all that GIJ has an integrated jit compiler now.
 > 
 > Its basically a GCJ compiling the code into shared-libs and loading it, 
 > right?

yes

 > How fast is the generated code

reasonably fast

 > and are the jit-results beeing cached from run to run (btw how hard
 > would it to implement this)?

They're always cached from run to run.  But this isn't always
practical, since the dynamic linker can't cope with a huge number of
shared libs, and neither can libgcj.

Andrew.