Java: indirect virtual dispatch for binary compatibility

[Brian Jones]

Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:

> My thanks to Dachuan Yu who provided much of the initial inspiration
> for this patch as well as an early test implementation. I know that
> Dachuan was looking at running the SpecJVM benchmarks against GCJ, so
> perhaps he could provide some more comprehensive performance
> figures.

>From my very basic understanding, this work also seems to make it more
likely that in the future one might be able to replace the class
libraries at run time, though I realize that is not a current goal.

Brian
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Brian Jones <cbj@gnu.org>