> My instinct tells me that this is yet another naive attempt at > benchmarking....
But if Alan identified a performance trouble area, then surely he's can't do anything else than what he is doing... trial-n-error under simulated conditions (acceptance tests). We can't all be Brian Goetz and walking around with intricate detail of the internals of the JVM. This is where the poor interoperability story of the JVM comes in; even if you choose to step out of the bounds of the managed environment for a specific corner case, in favor of determinism, you'll have a very hard time doing it. You can kinda do it with JNI and sun.misc.Unsafe, but it's not portable. I like to think that if it was possible, we'd see Java within a wider spectrum of applications (closer to systems programming) but I also know Sun has always been very religious about this... there is no spoon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
