Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:28:24 +0000:
>> [having the VMInterfaces classes clearly marked as 'special' >> would make it easy for VMs and compilers to just inline all calls >> to them] >It's not particularly difficult to do, but at the moment we don't do >it. gcj is perfectly capable of whole-program Java optimization but >we have to follow Java rules, and one of those rules is that you >cannot inline final methods because it breaks binary compatibility. >We could teach gcj that VM<foo> classes are an exception to that rule, >but I think you would agree that's not a pretty solution. Apparently, Java 1.5 will have "meta-data" (arbitrary, uninterpreted declarations for language constructs that are represented in bytecode and accessible via reflection), similar to CLI/.NET. This might be a much cleaner approach for declaring such exceptions. Of course, the free compilers would need to support it first. -- Sascha Sascha Brawer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/ _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
