[tcljava-dev] Jacl Performance

[Bruce J. <nm...@ma...>]

First, thanks to Shawn for finding the hotspot in Expression.java.  I 
haven't yet tested this fix with my own code but I'm looking forward to 
seeing some improvement.

Longer term, however, I'd really love to see Jacl have a compiler 
analogous to the byte code compiler in Tcl.  I've done some 
experimentation with compiling Jacl to Java bytecodes using the bytecode 
package from Kawa ( http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/ ). So far I've 
worked on compiling expressions and it looks very promising.  
Unfortunately, most of the time I have available for Jacl/Swank is 
currently devoted to working through the Tk tests with Swank.  Is 
anybody out there interested in working on the compiler?

cheers,

Bruce