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Date:      Wed, 09 Sep 1998 13:40:01 -0700
From:      Steve Byrne <sbb@freegate.com>
To:        alk@pobox.com
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Daemonising a Java Process: Possible?
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At 01:43 PM 9/9/98 -0500, Tony Kimball wrote:
>
>I think my point was not clear to you:  gjc was not designed as jit,
>i.e. as a component of a long-lived virtual machine.  GC in the 
>generated code and GC in the compiler itself being entirely distinct
>issues, and there being no requirement for the compiler not to leak
>through successive invokations (since "power-cycle" garbage collection
>is inherent in the invokation model), my supposition was that memory
>management in the compiler itself will be one of the first-order tasks
>required to use gjc as jit, on the assumption that the text/data/bss
>are persistently linked into the jvm.

Gotcha -- I wonder if performance will be adequate in a jit role, or if
the pauses while the compiler operates will be too distracting.


Steve



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