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Re: .class code optimization
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> Adam> Hrm, come to think of this, inter-class inlining could be a big
> Adam> advantage for gcj. I can't see how a JIT could ever support it.
> What difficulties do you forsee?
Argh, I was thinking of inlining at the javac stage. You're right,
the JIT can certainly still do this.
> With gcj cross-class inlining will always have to break Java binary
> compatibility. With a JIT this isn't so.
Yes. I guess inlining within a 'compilation unit' would be ideal.
Thus, if you pass your entire source tree to gcj in one invocation,
you'll get inter-class inlining.
- a
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