Exception Handling

Mon Jun 14 09:38:00 GMT 2004

Chris Gray writes:
 > On Sunday 13 June 2004 14:31, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > 
 > > Yeah, but we can't change the mechanism used by gcj because we use the
 > > same mechanism as C++, and this is defined by the ABI of the platforms
 > > we run on. It may be that the ratio of try/throw is different in Java
 > > programs and C++ programs, of course, so we may suffer because we use
 > > the same mechanism.
 > 
 > Ok, if there's really no possibility of changing the mechanism then this 
 > discussion is indeed somewhat sterile.
Well, it's not such a disaster: we get the ability transparently to
unwind through native C++ and Java code, and this is a win in real
applications. It's perhaps not the sort of win that appears to pay
off in benchmarks.
Andrew.