alloca and native code

Tue Sep 12 08:40:00 GMT 2000

Andrew Haley wrote:
> It would be nice if we didn't do this in embedded systems, since it
> breaks the nice property that Java aprograms have small stacks, and
> the stack is only scanned conservatively. We ought to question if
> this is a performance win on any system.

Agreed. GC techniques are getting very good; tricks like stack allocation don't
seem like such a good idea as they once were.
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Jeff Sturm
jeff.sturm@appnet.com