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Re: RFC: direct threading
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Java Patch List <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 17 Feb 2002 19:50:34 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC: direct threading
- References: <87adu7kh0c.fsf@creche.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
Tom> Running this against the infamous `prime' benchmark I saw around
Tom> a 20% speedup. That seems good, except that the JDK 1.2
Tom> interpreter is still nearly twice as fast. My guess is that
Tom> we're paying too much for function calls, but I haven't really
Tom> investigated (nor do I intend to).
Oh, another thing I forgot -- we might be able to get another good
speedup by implementing the recommendations in "Stack Caching for
Interpreters", by Anton Ertl. I haven't investigated exactly how we
might go about that.
Tom