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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:32:04 05/15/02

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On May 15, 2002 at 17:24:41, Gareth McCaughan wrote:

>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.

That's profile guided optimization in C++ land.  I find it hard to imagine that
doing it on the fly would be faster than profile guided data, but I often lack
imagination.



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