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Re: implementing escape analysis
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Paul Biggar <pbiggar at cs dot tcd dot ie>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:41:45 +0000
- Subject: Re: implementing escape analysis
- References: <1140107403.7299.11.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Paul Biggar writes:
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking at escape analysis in the past few days, and can't
> find a decent reference implementation. I see on the project page that
> escape analysis is wanted in gcj, and I thought I'd take a look
> implementing it. Has anybody made any efforts at it before, or perhaps
> does a prototype exists?
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/gupta/escape.ps
But I probably wouldn't recommend you to do it in a gcj-specific way.
gcj is merely the Java language front-end for gcc, and there may be a
plan for escape analysis that will suit all gcc's languages that can
use it.
Paging Diego Novillo...
Andrew.