[computer-go] Making Java much faster

[Mark Boon]

On 29-nov-06, at 08:43, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:

> Other tricks for faster java include ensuring that, wherever  
> possible, you use the final, static and private keywords. This  
> enables the compiler to apply more compilation tricks in more places.

More and more I find that using 'final' or 'static' to have no effect  
on speed at all. Most of the time the compiler figures out it can  
treat a method as final or static. I don't think I have found a case  
were explicitly putting it helped recently. Since the classes are  
loaded dynamically, I've always found this a bit of magic of the  
compiler. Somebody must have implemented something clever.

Mark

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