Re: Curious Kaffe vs. jdk speed test results under Linux

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From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Thu Jan 07 1999 - 04:26:38 EST

On Jan 5, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> Kaffe uses a function (softcall) which is invoked when a
> INVOKEINTERFACE bytecode instruction is executed. This function
> finds and invokes the method implementing the interface.

As soon as I implement the interface hashtable, we should be able to
get rid of the softcall, since it will become possible to compute the
address of the real method with a simple sequence of instructions. 

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Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

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