On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:02 PM, John Rose wrote:
> Fully optimized invalidations will use safepoints. The point of using an
> array is to allow any number of switchpoints to ride on one safepoint. Can
> you batch all the invalidations in a given hierarchy of N classes? Or is
> there an orde
That sounds right.
On May 26, 2011, at 6:31 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> * For a descendant hierarchy of N classes, I'll need to do N
> invalidateAll calls. This is not ideal, since those calls are very
> heavy.
Fully optimized invalidations will use safepoints. The point of using an arra
I wanted to outline how I plan to make JRuby's current class
modification check eventually be all SwitchPoint driven.
JRuby, like some other dynamic languages, allows runtime modification
of pretty much every class in the system. Usually this only happens at
boot time, but since it can potentially
