John Rose blogged about some possibilities for supporting this in the JVM http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/tuples_in_the_vm
I don't know of anyone working on this, even in prototype form, though. There was an interesting side comment from Cliff Click (formerly of the Hotspot server team, now at Azul), in a blog about performance on the JVM http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2009/09/java-vs-c-performance-again.html "For arrays-of-small-structs (e.g. arrays of Complex), you are correct: Java's lousy there (and I added that to C's strengths). When doing performance sensitive arrays-of-small-structs I turn the implementation 90-degrees and implement a small-struct-of-arrays. It's clearly a work-around over a clunky language issue... but the performance is solidly there (both in memory footprint and in access speed)." Patrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" 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/jvm-languages?hl=en.
