[kaffe] Small arraycopy patch, may have effects on arraycopy performance

Guilhem Lavaux guilhem at kaffe.org
Mon Jan 3 01:03:27 PST 2005


Dalibor Topic wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In order to try to track down what's causing the trouble on the 
> alpha-linux-interpreter tinderbox [1], where the exception is thrown 
> from within arraycopy, but doesn't contain useful information to 
> decode it, I've moved the error handling code out of the native part 
> of arraycopy into a new java part of the method.
>
> While my own measurements using SciMark2 on i386 showed no performance 
> decrease or increase by the change, if they do for you, I'd like to 
> hear about it.
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
> [1] 
> http://tinderbox.anholt.net/tinderbox3/showlog.pl?machine_id=13&logfile=20050102170656.log 
>
>
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Hi Dalibor,

If the modification is going to be permanent you'll also have to update 
test/regression/Reflect.java.

Cheers,

Guilhem Lavaux.




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