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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:18:45 +0800
From: "Xiao-Feng Li" <xiaofeng.li@gmail.com>
To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [drlvm] Helper inlining in JIT
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On 8/16/06, Mikhail Fursov <mike.fursov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/16/06, Xiao-Feng Li <xiaofeng.li@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > AFAIU  it's  enough to annotate JNI method with calling convention
> > details
> > > and to support it in JIT and VM.  So I see no difference in
> > implementation
> > > with helper inlining here. Just an extension or another version of
> > helper
> > > inlining mechanism.
> > > Am I missing something about JNI support?
> >
> > Yes, I guess you were missing something. ;-)
> > The service routine inlining is to attack the performance issue
> > brought when Java code calls into VM native services. If the JNI is
> > not a problem, this Java inlining can be not very interesting.
>
>
> So why can't we optimize native (JNI) calls from Java code using annotations
> similar to those used to annotate helper's slow call above?
> Once developer annotates native call with information about it's sideffects
> we can optimize the call and reduce JNI overhead.
> ?

This is off-topic now. :-)  But one (crazy) idea is to compile the
native code with JVM compiler as well so that both Java and native
code can use same IR.

Thanks,
xiaofeng

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