Hi, >> Interesting discussion - I tried to introduce some micro-optimizations >> (pretty much like these) into the Tomcat codebase 8 years ago, but was >> met with 'meh why bother?' responses as the thinking was that the vm >> would pretty much make optimizations pointless. I suppose it depends >> on where the hotspots are. > > In Tomcat's case there is another difference. Tomcat is most likely a > long running process (and you should be using the server VM). The JIT > can and will be able to collect more data and introduce more aggressive > optimizations over time.
Yes - the advantages of long-running processes being able to 'out-optimize' statically compiled stuff is well known (although I didn't know it at the time I suggested these changes 9+ years ago :) Kev --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
