Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniele Futtorovic Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java processors Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:02:17 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <5f101d00-4bc9-4750-939c-cd53605bfa0e@googlegroups.com> <4ff6318d$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <9diev791cc84tsljqusgl14shpseba19o7@4ax.com> <89ca24f7-0bf9-4d4b-be91-ef131989c4c9@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7ecfd50713586de1138e9225bbb530e4"; logging-data="3493"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19EcQ0eTElh3h5k7YoY/VRP" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:DT/zTIh2yXbxaJox+RiUanfwdRg= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15961 On 12/07/2012 00:41, Roedy Green allegedly wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:13:06 +0200, Daniele Futtorovic > wrote, quoted or indirectly > quoted someone who said : > >> Sounds to me like you could be misinterpreting that, Roedy. It says >> "method... running in a loop". Not: loop running in a method. I'd rather > > That would be much simpler. That way you would never optimise a loop > in the process of being executed. That sounds like a much more > plausible task. All you have to do is get the stack right and leave > all the class and instance variable where they are. > > The problem it is could wait quite a long time to interrupt. I wonder > how it actually works. Well, look at it like this: the longer (and hence less frequently) the method runs (it running indefinitely being the extreme case), the less reason there is to replace it. -- DF.