Multiple copies of same code

[Christian Thalinger]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 22:32 -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> Hi Ulf,
> 
> I don't know if it useful but 2 years ago I had a go at optimizing GNU
> Classpath's NIO charset implementation, in particular for byte
> charsets like ASCII [1]. The approach I wanted was for small methods
> that would inline easily and final fields that could be chased through
> to avoid runtime indirections. In MRP [2] (source is Eclipse Public
> License) I kick the compiler to inline some of the core routines
> further [3].
> 
> Regards,
> Ian Rogers
> (now at Azul Systems in Mountain View)
> 
> [1] http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/classpath/gnu/java/nio/charset/?root=classpath
> [2] http://mrp.codehaus.org/
> [3] http://git.codehaus.org/gitweb.cgi?p=mrp.git;a=blob;f=tools/asm-tasks/src/org/jikesrvm/tools/asm/AnnotationAdder.java;hb=HEAD

Ulf,

did you look at this code?  I think it might be more worth to factorize
your code like this than to dig around in assembly code and try to fix
it there.

-- Christian