Robert Collier and I used the profiling in Kaffe and some micro-benchmarks to estimate the performance benefits of inlining methods in the Kaffe JVM. For several of the benchmarks inlining key methods can significantly improve the overall performance of the code (~30% improvement). We put a postscript draft of the paper, "Estimated Performance Improvement of Inline Methods in Kaffe Java Virtual Machine," on our web site, http://www.eb.uah.edu/~crash/javanauts/pubs/pubs.html. We would appreciate some feedback on the paper. -Will Cohen
