class initialization check overhead

Sun Dec 15 05:42:00 GMT 2002

Jeff Sturm writes:
 > It occurred to me that your gcj builtins framework could be widely
 > applied to certain often-called routines in java.lang. Other good
 > candidates are Object.getClass() and String.equals().
 > 
 > Automatic inlining of these methods isn't likely to happen anytime soon,
 > if ever.
Automatic inlining of native CNI methods is very hard, and I don't
expect it either!
Andrew.