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

Author: Gareth McCaughan

Date: 14:24:41 05/15/02

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On May 15, 2002 at 11:52:52, Dann Corbit wrote:

> Actually not.  I assumed he was talking about a combination of global
> optimization together with optimal reordering of the objects to minimize jump
> distance [at compile time and then at link time].
>
> I have no idea why rewriting the code at runtime would be an advantage.
> Undoubtably, I simply do not understand the message that I responded to.

Same principle as profile-driven optimization, only more so.
Track which way jumps go and arrange code accordingly to
minimize cache misses and pipeline stalls.

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