Surinx + backport

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
> First, Charles, there is a bug in compiler.rb that prevent me to use Surinx.
>
> This bug was already present in Duby but I don't remember if I report it or
> not.
> The compiler generate a LDC + forName with a name containing slash ('/')
> instead of dot ('.')

Ahh, thanks for this :) I will patch it.

> Here are the result with the backport:
> [forax at localhost surinx]$ /usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0_11/bin/java -cp .:src
> -javaagent:../indy-backport2/lib/jsr292-backport.jar examples/fib
> hello
> 1.001
> 0.051
> 0.052
> 0.078
> 0.074

These are definitely good results, comparable to what I was getting
with MLVM + the inlining patch!

I need to spend some time playing with backport + JRuby soon.

- Charlie