binary compatibility ABI (was: Re: [boehm-gc] Import 6.3 alpha 1)

Thu Aug 14 07:33:00 GMT 2003

Jeff Sturm writes:
 > 
 > One of my sore points is the performance gap between static and
 > position-independent code with the current gcj compiler. For example:
 > reading a static field requires one memory load without -fPIC, but two
 > loads with -fPIC (to obtain the memory address from the GOT offset).
Short of overwriting the instruction that does the fetch, how would you
do that?
Andrew.