Re: Migration to generics opens up exciting optimization opportunities from annotations

2006-11-30 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Ian" == Ian Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> I'm interested in adding these optimization to the Jikes RVM, but Ian> clearly the annotations need adding to Classpath. I was wondering what Ian> kind of response this would get? I think it would be fine. My only concerns are the usual

RE: Migration to generics opens up exciting optimization opportunities from annotations

2006-11-30 Thread Jeroen Frijters
Ian Rogers wrote: > I'm interested in adding these optimization to the Jikes RVM, but > clearly the annotations need adding to Classpath. I was > wondering what kind of response this would get? I've been thinking about using annotations for similar things and one of the things that I think makes

Migration to generics opens up exciting optimization opportunities from annotations

2006-11-30 Thread Ian Rogers
Hi, I believe there are some interesting optimization opportunities that flow from the move to generics that enables the proper use of annotations. For example a code sequence such as: static final int specialValue = 123; void foo() { Integer bar1 = Integer.valueOf(specialValue); i