Correction to last message, GC status

Tue Jun 26 11:41:00 GMT 2001

On 2001年6月26日, Boehm, Hans wrote:
> I suspect that we'll also see a measurable performance increase from linking
> statically linking the GC library against libgcj. Allocation calls from
> inside libgcj (e.g. for strings) will no longer cross a dynamic library
> boundary.

That's true. I'm wondering though why that should have any effect on
performance. For PIC code, non-static procedures will be called through
the PLT in either case. I don't see anything special about the dynamic
library boundary besides sparse virtual addresses.
OTOH, systems that prelink dynamic libraries (e.g. win32) should benefit
from combining the libraries.
Jeff