Colleagues:
Thanks a lot for your advices and discussions.
I think that I got enough support to enable null-check inside the VM
helper. I will commit it and upload a new snapshot soon.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:05 PM, bu qi cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Mikhail
>
> Can you show us where is the magic for the monitorEnter? The eliminate
> the chknull, the HLR magic is needed.
>
> Buqi
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Mikhail Fursov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >wrote:
>
> > AFAIR checknull is always precedes an operation that can cause exception
> if
> > one of its arguments is NULL. Since this operation may have side effects
> -
> > it can't be removed nor moved into try/cactch block by optimizer.
> > In our case if the operation is a helper-call - it must fit this scheme:
> do
> > manual nullcheck.
> >
> > There should not be any performance problem here: if the helper is hot ->
> > Jitrino.OPT will inline it using magics and eliminate the check.
> > So I see no problems enabling null-check inside of the VM helper.
> >
> > --
> > Mikhail Fursov
> >
>
