Santiago Pericas wrote:
>
> > yes, automatically generated, but the 'XSLT to bytecode' patterns have
> > been manually crafted, right? and I'm pretty sure that you guys crafted
> > them based on the assumption on how the underlying JVM was going to
> > interpret them. Which shows why it is faster on the Sun 1.3.1 JVM (but
> > this is just my hypotesis)
>
> I think this is more of a coincidence.
Ah
> Translets try to allocate as few
> objects as possible. Other JVM's may be better optimized for object
> creation/initialization. Sun's, on the other hand, does a pretty good
> job finding the "hot spots" and this could be the reason why translets
> run fast.
yes, the 'bytecode tight loops' that translets have might really use the
power of hotspot.
> As to why 1.4 is slower? This is puzzling.
This is the reason why I didn't think of hotspot vs. IBM JIT. ASAIK, 1.4
uses the same code (tuned) of 1.3.1
> The first thing that comes
> to mind is the new assertion mechanism but, as far as I know, it is
> completely turned off by default (or isn't?).
They should be.
--
Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be
able to give birth to a dancing star.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche
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