Jeff Clites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where in the stream would we patch? If not in a loop, you may never hit > the single patched location again, but still might not end for a very > long time....
Same as with prederefed run cores: backward branches, invoke* > If we are patching all locations with branches and such, in large > bytecode this could take a long time, and the executing thread might > outrun the "patching" thread. We have of course to benchmark this scheme against other approaches. Albeit finding/writing such benchmarks and measuring responsiveness will be some fun ;) But we can of course measure how long it takes to patch a certain amount of code twice. > ... Also, once the handler is entered we'd > have to fix all of patched locations, which again could be > time-consuming for large bytecode. Please remember: only the current code segment has to be patched, which theoretically could be very large, but that's unlikely. > JEff leo
