need to focus on java performance?

Bryce McKinlay mckinlay@redhat.com
Thu May 25 14:59:00 GMT 2006


David Daney wrote:
> The calling method's address is in the standard location (as specified 
> by the ABI), we know how to find the class given this information. 

Finding the method's address is easy enough, but what about the address 
of the atable entry containing the pointer to the method? Thats what 
needs to be patched. Also, patching all the callers for a given class at 
once would mean we can drop all the unneeded trampolines, saving memory.

Bryce



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