Re: -X options?

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Linuxhippy writes:
 > great that gij now has a jit, the interpreter was too slow for many uses.
 > 
 > > > 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.
 > >  
 > >
 > Hmm, of couse.
 > 
 > But wouldn't it be an option to create at compilation time(jit) both, 
 > the shared-lib and the corresponding object-file?
 > At next startup we could link all object files laying arround together 
 > into one shared-library with an hacked non-checking linker.

We could do that.  We don't.

 > Btw. is the jit activated the first time after a method has been called 
 > a number of times or are all methods compiled at the first run?

First time.  We don't know how to replace methods once they're loaded.
It would be a fun project for someone.

Andrew.