[OpenJDK Rasterizer] Fwd: Re: Fwd: RFR: Marlin renderer #3

[Jim Graham]

On 8/10/2015 2:15 PM, Laurent Bourgès wrote:
>     Renderer.java, line 792: Do you need to copy ERR_STEP_MAX into a
>     local?  It is a statically initialized final int - that should
>     already be a constant that gets copied into the code.
>
>
> I always copy constants used in loops to avoid repeated constant lookups.

I was under the understanding that if a constant is declared final and 
static, then it is compiled directly into the code and there is no 
constant lookup.  Check the bytecodes and you should see a hard-coded 
literal 0x7fffffff everywhere it is used...

			...jim