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Subject: Re: So how's Java these days? Still slow?

Author: David Hanley

Date: 14:31:08 05/10/02

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On May 10, 2002 at 16:34:39, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 10, 2002 at 08:37:28, Mark Christiaens wrote:
>

>>C/C++ compilers compile one source-code module at a time and cannot optimize
>>over these boundaries.
>
>Not true, for a long time now.
>
>> JIT-compilers for Java see the whole application and can
>>for example inline methods from other classes which were not available at
>>compile time.
>
>So can C and C++ compilers.

Interesting.  What compilers can rewrite code at runtime?  How is this done?
Seems like you'd have to step beyond the object-file paradigm.

dave



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