> Newbie question: What is to stop us from caching JITed code? .NET/ > mono does this as far as I know?
We can do it even in the forthcoming Harmony runtime. On the other hand, an apparent drawback is disk consumption. Generally, JITted native code takes 3 times or more as much as bytecode takes. Another drawback is that the saved JITted code still needs symbol resolution and the JIT compilers and loader of the saved native code are complicated according to it. It may be possible for the reused code to be optimized along runtime information. But the Java runtime has to have such a feature to judge a method is being executed or not. Kazuyuki Shudo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.shudo.net/
