Re: [groovy-dev] Optimizing Scripts (just an Idea)

On 13 May 2004, at 16:00, bing ran wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> This is what really happens for your two lines of code:
>
> package bran.groovy;
>
> import groovy.lang.Binding;
> import groovy.lang.Script;
> import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper;
>
> public class println extends Script {
>
>     public println() {
>     }
>
>     public println(Binding binding) {
>         super.setBinding(binding);
>     }
>
>     public static void main(String args[]) {
>         Object __temp1 = ((Object) ({
>             bran.groovy.println.class, args
>         }));
>
> InvokerHelper.invokeMethod(org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.cl 
> ass,
> "runScript", __temp1);
>     }
>
>     public Object run() {
>         InvokerHelper.setGroovyObjectProperty(new Integer(3), this,  
> "x");
>         Object __temp2 = ((Object) ({
>             InvokerHelper.getGroovyObjectProperty(this, "x")
>         }));
>         return InvokerHelper.invokeMethod(this, "println", __temp2);
>     }

Note we can optimise the above 3 calls slightly, since all of these  
operations operate on 'this'. So rather than calling a static helper  
method, we could just invoke the methods directly (since this is-a  
GroovyObject)

e.g. this method could be

public Object run() {
setProperty("x", new Integer(3))
Object __temp2 = getPorperty("x")
return invokeMethod("println", __temp2)
}

Though maybe hotspot is smart enough to figure that out?

Finally we could use class static constants for the numbers. e.g.

setProperty("x", _constant_1)

private static final Integer constant_1 = new Integer(3);

James
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