-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chuck,
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Java 1.6 >> >> I don't believe that javac has undergone significant upgrades through >> the years... > > Actually, it has, but the big improvements were between 1.3 and 1.5. Really? Other than crap like auto-boxing, attributes, and foreach-style 'for' syntax, what has the compiler done for me, lately? I see all that as syntactic sugar. > The javac in Java SE 6 doesn't appear to be much different from that in > 1.5 in terms of efficiency of the generated byte codes. Has the bytecode emitted by previous versions been perticularly non-optimized? >> I would bet that each release of the JVM gets leaner and meaner. > > Definitely meaner, in that the JITs do produce better code. I certainly > wouldn't describe either of the HotSpot JITs as "lean". (The server > compiler was the basis for a several hundred-page PhD thesis a few years > ago :-) I suppose by "leaner", I meant in terms of required RAM. The libraries certainly aren't getting any lighter through the years ;) - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG+q/C9CaO5/Lv0PARApNdAJ93Y8K7mqP/6bjdOXUkdPO4L8dZ9ACeKmcA gu9OUOsbIouVUMs6rBfKokU= =1nA9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
