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Re: generic type support

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
Cc: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>, "Geert Bevin" <gbevin at uwyn dot com>, <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: 19 Feb 2003 14:00:34 -0700
Subject: Re: generic type support
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Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com

>> Come generics, GCJ would only need to support it at a bytecode level.

Andrew> I on't know about that.  I would have thought that there are
Andrew> tremendous opportunities for optimization with the added type
Andrew> information.

I read a paper about java generics last year.  Their approach requires
the insertion of checkcast calls, even though they are known to always
succeed.  We could omit these checks from the object code.

Tom

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