Boxing, still a limit of invokedynamic?

[Jochen Theodorou]

Am 14.05.2012 08:55, schrieb Rémi Forax:
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>> so you mean to tell me that I have first to convert the Object to an
>> Integer and that Integer to int, instead of directly converting the
>> Object to an int? I see, I will try that out.
>
> Yes.
> You should not have to do that because you first check if the
> parameter is an Integer but currently the VM doesn't propagate
> this information.
> (there is a patch for that, but not yet integrated)
> Also, it should be faster before the JIT is kicked in.

That it is slower at first is ok. Only I kind of assumed, that such 
things can be optimized away. The less the JIT can optimize, the more I 
have to do that and work around the limitations, making my runtime more 
complex. And with the next JVM update all that work might be for nothing.

bye Jochen

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