Will Java go native?

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 9/20/13, deadalnix <deadalnix at gmail.com> wrote:
> So basically what you do is :
>
> funptr = load from vtbl;
> if (funptr == compile_time_known_value) {
>      compile_time_known_value();
> } else {
>      funptr();
> }

OT: This reminds me of a small benchmark I did recently where using a
signal implementation with two pointers (function and delegate, to
allow connecting to both) is faster than using a single delegate and
converting a function pointer to a delegate via toDelegate(). It
boiled down to:

if (funcPtr !is null)
    funcPtr(...);
else
if (delegPtr !is null)
    delegPtr(...);