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[Jeff Sturm]

Actually javac performs several simple optimizations, including method
inlining and constant folding.  More aggressive optimizations are
usually left to a JIT or native-code compiler (loop unrolling may be one
of these, I'm not sure).

Jeff

dan wrote:
> 
> Does the bytecode compiler perform any optimizations?  Are loops unrolled,
> methods inlined, etc, within the bytecode?  If so, this is an excellent
> reason to start using GCJ, as no other bytecode compiler that I am aware
> of performs any optimizations.
> 
> -dan
> 
> Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> >
> > You can use gcj to generate bytecodes using the `-C' option.  Of
> > course, you still need a runtime, so this probably isn't all that
> > interesting.  You could use gcj to compile and then use Sun's runtime,
> > I suppose.  I don't remember ever trying this myself.
> >
> > Tom

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