In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>When I fixed Kaffe's jit to properly spill registers, I did some
>measurements and found that the number of spills did not increase
>significantly. This is for two reasons: for one, Kaffe already
>spills so liberally it's a pain. But secondly and more importantly, keep
Hehe, yes, that could be a good reason. Maybe when the new JIT is in place
we can think of this again.
>in mind that you only need to spill register if you're in a try block to
>which a catch clause exists that catches NullPointerExceptions. There
>is no need to spill anything if you don't have to restore them.
Ah, yes that's right. Didn't think of that.
regards, Stefan Burstroem
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