Will Java go native?

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 05:31:09 UTC, Dmitry Leskov wrote:
> Our AOT compiler does inline virtual calls of non-final methods 
> that are not overloaded in any subclass known at compile time. 
> Of course, there is a runtime check and a backup virtual call, 
> but the check is cheap and code size increase in negligible.
>
> What we don't do (yet) is profile-guided optimizations, but 
> that is on our to-do list.
>

So basically what you do is :

funptr = load from vtbl;
if (funptr == compile_time_known_value) {
     compile_time_known_value();
} else {
     funptr();
}

Which avoid the indirection if the function is actually called 
most of the time. Am I right ?