about non-compatible optimization (was: Re: patch to bring java vtables closer to g++ abi conformance)

Tue Jan 29 16:13:00 GMT 2002

Andrew Haley writes:
 > 
 > > For now I think simply moving initialization to the caller would improve 
 > > things a lot.
 > 
 > Perhaps, but it would complicate the business of converting to doing
 > it the Right Way (TM). :-)
Can I make a suggestion? If we do change to doing the initialization
at the call site, let's leave the old scheme as a compiler option so
that it's really easy to switch back. That will make it much more
easy for me to experiment with multiple entry points and find out how
much of a difference it makes.
Andrew.