On Tuesday 12 December 2006 15:53, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > Certainly not. Actually the java code is compiled to machine code at > runtime. This is slower than precompiling, but the compiled code can run > faster than its precompiled counterpart, because the runtime machine > will have information about how often a certain part of the code is > called, and those calls can be made inline. Running inline code is much > faster than procedure calls.
OK. Did you actually do benchmarking or similar? IIRC, the Java parts of openoffice are compiled to native code in Ubuntu's packages, for performance reasons, so it's not obvious what's best. I guess that memory consumption and startup time of most programs can decrease pretty much if they are compiled to native code. Also, IIRC there are options in gcc to optimise using profiling information; I don't know about gcj though. And gcc -O2 makes fair guesses on what to inline and not. -- Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
