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Re: about non-compatible optimization (was: Re: patch to bring java vtables closer to g++ abi conformance)
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- Cc: Tuomas Leikola <tuomas dot leikola at digia dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 28 Jan 2002 22:38:00 -0700
- Subject: Re: about non-compatible optimization (was: Re: patch to bring java vtables closer to g++ abi conformance)
- References: <04e201c1a580$6e6feb70$3a090a0a@tobo> <3C51C8BC.303@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
Bryce> In fact a virtual method call (in a loop) in GCJ is *faster*
Bryce> than a static method call (in Java or C).
This is very interesting, because it means that even if we can
devirtualize a method call (via the eventual AST code), we might not
want to in certain situations.
Tom