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Tue Feb 16 18:14:00 GMT 1999

>>>>> "Per" == Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com> writes:

Per> There are I believe stand-alone bytecode optimizers. I've seen a
Per> few research papers, but I haven't actually tried such an
Per> optimizer.
To me this sounds like a good approach for anybody interested in
getting optimized bytecode. One benefit is that it is independent of
the compiler used. It probably wouldn't be all that hard to convince
gcj to automatically run such an optimizer as a final pass, if maximal
convenience was desired. (Of course there are drawbacks to this
approach too.)
I've also heard of special Java linkers which "seal" an application
and do inlining and other global optimizations.
Tom