[kaffe] profiling in sparc

Dalibor Topic robilad@yahoo.com
Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:46:54 -0700 (PDT)


--- Dalibor Topic <robilad@yahoo.com> wrote:

> That way, your "profiling" code would actually work
> with other VMs, too, and without having to patch
> kaffe
> (except for the class loader code to invoke your
> class
> loader).

Except for one thing, actually. Reflection. If you
want to count the field/method/contructor calls made
through reflection you actually need to adapt the
reflection library implementatin of your target vm.
That should be still easy compared to actually hacking
the VM  core, in my opinion.

cheers,

dalibor topic

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