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

[Phil Race]

That is my understanding too.

-phil.

On 08/13/2015 01:35 PM, Jim Graham wrote:
>
>
> 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