Sascha Brawer writes:
> 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.
So we'd have something like
public final class VMfoo
{
@Inline void native bar (int i);
@Inline void baz (int i) {
I could make that work.
Andrew.
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