any impact on performance from javac's debug option ?

[John Rose]

We've seen cases where performance went down after an assert was  
added, solely due to an inlining heuristic that flipped.  There will  
always be cases where a semantically null change will cause the  
heuristics to detune.  But as Tom says there are things we want to do  
to make it happen less often, such as adjusting the sizing metrics to  
not charge for unused basic blocks.

-- John

On Aug 4, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:

> Unfortunately yes.  There's a bug filed about it though I don't  
> remember the id offhand.  The compilers should use sizing metrics  
> which take asserts into account, along with having some bytecode  
> specific metrics, but we haven't done any work on this yet.  Hiding  
> the existence of asserts is slighly tricky since it requires at  
> least som control flow analysis.
>
> tom
>
> On Aug 4, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>> On a similar note, what about asserts? Do they add to bytecode  
>> size and thereby affect inlining decisions?