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...9;final'. In this case we need to know some > properties of the java type. (And, you can construct plenty of > examples where java type information yields optimization > opportunities.) I think this example is even simpler than the method caled on the result of new. When translating invokevitual on objects of final classes just call the method directly and don't perform an indirect function call though the vtable. Ditto for final methods. -- Alkis

>>>>> "Archie" == Archie Cobbs <archie at dellroad.org> writes: >> In the JIT, devirtualization looks doable, though somewhat fiddly. At >> least, that is true for straightforward things like calls to methods >> in final classes, or calls to methods on objects allocated with 'new' >> in the current function. (The latter could be