Does anybody know this? Thanks.

[Christian Thalinger]

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 16:16 +1100, Xinwei Xie wrote:
> Hi,everybody
> 
> Does someone know this? Thanks.
> >> I found some compiler introductions and 
> >> optimizations published in some papers, such as HIR(Highlevel 
> >> Intermediate Representation), LIR and SSA forms, etc. The IR is another 
> >> type of bytecode. If I want to instrument bytecode, such as 
> >> 'monitorenter', 'monitorexit', is it feasible to work on the IR?

It's possible to do this on the IR level, yes.  But normally it is much
more work than just modifying the functions you want to instrument.  It
also depends on _what_ information you want to gather.

- Christian