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Re: Generics and downcasts

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On 4/25/2017 4:40 PM, Marcel Mueller wrote:
> On 25.04.17 22.20, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> [Marcel Mueller also wrote; attribution lost:]
>>> There are other pitfalls that are by far more expensive.
>>> E.g. if you miss to declare a trivial Java method as final. This
>>> prevents the JIT from inlining the method body. This may add an overhead
>>> of an order of magnitude or even more.
>>
>> I think this is a myth.
>>
>> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp1029/  (Brian Goetz 2002)
>> [...]
> 
> I never said that the Java compiler might inline such function calls. 
> This is up to the JIT.

     The JIT is able to inline non-final and non-private methods.  Here's
a page with some information on how you can watch it happening:

https://techblug.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/java-jit-compiler-inlining/

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Re: Generics and downcasts Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2017-04-25 22:07 +0200
  Re: Generics and downcasts Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-04-25 16:20 -0400
    Re: Generics and downcasts Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 13:35 -0700
      Re: Generics and downcasts Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-04-25 19:54 -0400
    Re: Generics and downcasts Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2017-04-25 22:40 +0200
      Re: Generics and downcasts Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-04-25 18:13 -0400
      Re: Generics and downcasts Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-04-25 19:53 -0400

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