Jeroen Frijters writes: > Andrew Haley wrote: > > However, as for overhead -- I don't believe it. I doubt that not > > having this parameter saves anything much on any VM. > > That's just your lack of imagination ;-) I was concerned with two > aspects wrt performance: > 1) Class literals are inefficient -- this is no longer an issue to me, > since I now use ecj (in 1.5 mode) to compile GNU Classpath > 2) I have to do multiple (partial) stack walks to retrieve multiple > frames > > Remember, IKVM is built on top of another VM, so I have to use another > stack walking abstraction to walk the stack. Having to fetch multiple > frames is obviously more expensive than having to fetch a single frame.
As I said: > IMO trying to unify low-level stack walker code is unnecessary and > leads to too many compromises; it's a merge too far. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
