need to focus on java performance?

[Andrew Haley]

David Daney writes:
 > Bryce McKinlay wrote:
 > > David Daney wrote:
 > >> The calling method's address is in the standard location (as 
 > >> specified by the ABI), we know how to find the class given this 
 > >> information. 
 > >
 > > Finding the method's address is easy enough, but what about the 
 > > address of the atable entry containing the pointer to the method?
 > Isn't the atable part the the calling method's class?  The stack trace 
 > infrastructure allows you to find the class of a method given an IP that 
 > is contained by the method.

Mmm, but it's quite expensive.  It would be nice not to do unwinding
in the class initialization path.

Andrew.