On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> So often the raw performance comes down to the VM generated code
Yes, that's the main story.
Performance is strongly determined by code generated by the dynamic compiler
(aka "JIT").
C++-generated instructions are rarely executed, apart from t
On Apr 16, 2010, at 10:24 AM, David Dabbs wrote:
Hello. My apologies if these questions are OT for this list.
On the premise that building my own binaries could yield performance
improvements versus the Sun(Oracle)-provided binaries I've decided to
tinker with building from source.
* My firs
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:09, David Dabbs wrote:
>> > * If so, is it possible to build using Intel's compiler?
>>
>> You'll probably need to port, and to modify
>> some underlying assumptions.
>> I don't recommend it.
>>
>
> I'm not sure I understand your reference to "port." The Intel
> compiler
> Subject: Re: JDK build questions
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:24, David Dabbs wrote:
> >
> > On the premise that building my own binaries could yield performance
> > improvements versus the Sun(Oracle)-provided binaries I've decided to
> > tinker with building from source.
> >
> > * My first
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:24, David Dabbs wrote:
>
> Hello. My apologies if these questions are OT for this list.
>
> On the premise that building my own binaries could yield performance
> improvements versus the Sun(Oracle)-provided binaries I've decided to
> tinker with building from source.
>
Hello. My apologies if these questions are OT for this list.
On the premise that building my own binaries could yield performance
improvements versus the Sun(Oracle)-provided binaries I've decided to
tinker with building from source.
* My first question is "Is this a reasonable premise?"
* If
On 15 April 2010 21:55, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:40, Joe Darcy wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> From time to time, I want to run an annotation processor over all the Java
>> sources going into the JDK. Annotation processors as compiler plug-ins can
>> be used to check various str
