At 08:15 PM 6/8/2002 +0200, Jerome Vouillon wrote: >I think this is a design mistake of the Java VM. It would have been >more efficient to keep the local variables on the stack.
Define efficient. I assume they made their choices for more than one reason, and I'd hesitate to call it a design mistake unless I was really sure what those reasons were. Personally I wasn't so I can't say. -Melvin