-X options?

Thu Mar 3 17:41:00 GMT 2005

Linuxhippy writes:
 > Hello again,
 > 
 > > -Xjitcache:PATH set path for storing cached JIT compilations
 > > -Xjitopts:OPTS specify options to pass to JIT compiler
 > >
 > Wow - I did not know at all that GIJ has an integrated jit compiler now.
 > 
 > Its basically a GCJ compiling the code into shared-libs and loading it, 
 > right?
yes
 > How fast is the generated code
reasonably fast
 > and are the jit-results beeing cached from run to run (btw how hard
 > would it to implement this)?
They're always cached from run to run. But this isn't always
practical, since the dynamic linker can't cope with a huge number of
shared libs, and neither can libgcj.
Andrew.