------- Additional Comments From mckinlay at redhat dot com 2004-11-04 18:46 ------- Here's my thoughts about this:
- This optimization only ever worked for source compilation. Bytecode compilers always emit array initializers as code, so for byte compilation it makes no difference. - I don't see a strong reason not to reference the vtable symbols, but if we decide to remove my patch then we need to be careful that the original bug remains fixed - see: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2004-q3/msg00343.html - Is this optimization really worth worrying about? I'm pretty sure that performance-wise, the difference is insignificant - binary size is what we should be concerned about here. Is a binary that initializes arrays in code significantly larger? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18190
