The Interpreter Mechanism?

Gary Benson gbenson at redhat.com
Tue Jan 6 01:38:47 PST 2009


Christian Thalinger wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 15:25 +0000, Gary Benson wrote:
> > xenway wrote:
> > > Can you please guide me to the part of the code where interpreter
> > > works when I use '-Xint' option corresponding to a bytecode
> > > operation. I can't figure out how and where it is executed in the
> > > interpreter mode.
> > 
> > hotspot/src/share/vm/interpreter/bytecodeInterpreter.cpp
> 
> But this is the C++ interpreter, not the template interpreter
> actually used by HotSpot's mixed mode.

Ah, he did say "bytecode interpreter", maybe I was taking that too
literally :)

Cheers,
Gary

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