Re: Java processors

Roedy Green allegedly wrote:
Lew wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>> They don't do that exactly. There's no restart.
>>
>> <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/hotspotfaq-138619.html#compiler_warmup>
>
> " HotSpot contains On Stack Replacement technology which will compile
> a running (interpreted) method and replace it while it is still
> running in a loop. No need to waste your applications time warming up
> seemingly infinite (or very long running) loops in order to get better
> application performance."
>
> It thus stops it is mid flight, possibly half way through a loop,
> writes machine code, creates the equivalent state/register, and picks
> up where it left off (what I ambiguously called restarting) but
> running machine code. I can hardly believe this is possible,
> especially when you think about all the optimisations on the machine
> code.

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
interpret that as being about a method running repeatedly in a loop.

Agree with the "walk on water" thing, though.