.class code optimization

Fri Oct 11 17:48:00 GMT 2002

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> Adam> Hrm, come to think of this, inter-class inlining could be a big
> Adam> advantage for gcj. I can't see how a JIT could ever support it.

> What difficulties do you forsee?

Argh, I was thinking of inlining at the javac stage. You're right,
the JIT can certainly still do this.
> With gcj cross-class inlining will always have to break Java binary
> compatibility. With a JIT this isn't so.

Yes. I guess inlining within a 'compilation unit' would be ideal.
Thus, if you pass your entire source tree to gcj in one invocation,
you'll get inter-class inlining.
 - a
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