Another paper on invokedynamic

[Chanwit Kaewkasi]

Hi Rémi,

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 21:30, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>  Le 27/09/2010 15:20, Christian Thalinger a écrit :
>> On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 19:52 +0700, Chanwit Kaewkasi wrote:
>>> I hope you find it useful somehow and any feedback is very welcome!
>>>
>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/381580/vmil10_kaewkasi_revised.pdf
>> Nice read.  It would be very interesting why Monte Carlo behaves like
>> that.  Did you look closer at it?
>
> I've done the same kind of test, not on SciMark 2.0 but on DaCapo

Glad to hear that you tried transforming DaCapo as well.
How did you overcome the limitation that primitives must follow references:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/mlvm-dev/2010-July/001875.html

or probably I missed somethings in the recent builds?

> and without rewriting all primitive operators (BTW, I haven't understand
> why you have re-written it manually).

It's getting fully automatic for now ;-)

> The results was far better but I suppose it's due to the fact that I haven't
> woven operators.
>
> A remark, you don't need to store all method handles in an array,
> the one you initialize in the static block of each class.
>
> Instead of having one boostrap by callsite you can factor them to have one
> bootstrap by invocation bytecode.

This looks interesting but it seems to be my limitation that I cannot
fully understand you suggestions at the moment. Maybe I'll try what
you said and be back to you later. Thanks a lot.

-Chanwit