New gcj option --no-store-check

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com> writes:

Jeff> I'd say this merits a news item, does anyone agree?

Definitely.

Jeff> I tried it on my interpreter benchmark, and got around a 5%
Jeff> boost on code that's usually dominated by GC time.

Nice.  Hopefully the AST branch work will eventually give us some of
this gain without sacrificing safety.

Jeff> Also, will this go into 3.1?

I saw it committed to the branch.

Tom