Field resolution -vs- JNI

Fri Mar 23 10:18:00 GMT 2001

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> I agree. Right now we call _Jv_InitClass way too much. Eliminating
> those calls when possible would be nice. For trivial classes we could
> compile the class in a pre-initialized state.

It would help if we could have the linker help with interning Strings,
then we don't have to worry about String literals at class init time.
Anyone know if the ELF dynamic linker has a "symbol-not-found"
callback hook? 
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