Toward distributions of native libraries

[Samuel Audet]

On 1/19/19 6:12 AM, John Rose wrote:
> Life is risky, and sometimes you hit a dead end.  You are asking "what 
> if there's a dead end here for a non-static API w.r.t. performance", 
> forcing us to refactor the whole thing.  "What if" indeed.  I suppose we 
> differ about the probability of a disruptive refactor.  I think it is 
> vanishingly unlikely, given the large bag of tricks the JVM has to 
> optimize dynamic code as if it were static.  So the "what if" question 
> is uninteresting to me.

JIT, sure, but AOT? Well, I'm starting to believe you :)
I did a bit of benchmarking here:

 > JNI time = 28
 > C time = 10
 > dummy time = 10
 > native time = 7

https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/885#issuecomment-456299353

Samuel