Blog Archive for forax during September 2010

Yesterday, an interresting patch was pushed into the hotspot compiler (JITs) workspace, with this summary "Infrastructure for tiered compilation support", exciting isn't it. Tiered compilation in hotspot is an old dream. Hotspot has two JITs named c1 aka client JIT and c2 aka server JIT. The client JIT starts fast but provides less optimizations so it is used for GUI application. The...