Thanks, George, I'm going to review and commit this feature. On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:40 PM, George Timoshenko < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Colleagues, > > I created a new JIRA issue with an improvement proposal for Jitrino.OPT. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5743 > > In compressed mode OPT always uncompress a ref just after it is loaded > from memory (from field). > So each reference is uncompressed in the managed code. > It is a convention in HLO. There are not dedicated instructions for > compression/uncompression. > IRBuilder generates LdField and its dst operand has type - > UncompressedRef. > > It probably has sense not to uncompress ref if it is loaded just for NULL > comparison or storing to another field. > To do this we need to generate Compress/Uncompress instructions explicitly > during byte code translation. > > I almost completed this work. > Unfortunately it may happen I will have no ability to complete this work. > I will be happy to see somebody completed the task. > > > Thank you, > George. > > -- Mikhail Fursov
