More performance explorations

[John Rose]

On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:

> I'm seeing slow perf as well but I think it might be a jruby/292 mismatch problem:

Yes; the 292 expert group yanked convertArgs since it was a near-synonym of asType.  (The delta is factored into the new method asFixedArity.)

The mlvm patch meth-deprecate.patch adds the deleted methods back in, temporarily:
  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/jdk/file/tip/meth-deprecate.patch

But those methods are really going away!

I'll spin a meth.jar that includes (a) recent fixes and (b) deprecated methods.  (Actually, two meth.jar's.)

-- John