Re: [Help-smalltalk] moving code?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:37, Michael Haupt <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> the bunch of questions I actually wanted to ask was this:
>
> Does the gst VM recompile already compiled methods (e.g., due to
> optimisation decisions), is there adaptive (re)compilation?

No, in fact the JIT is disabled by default.

> Does the VM get rid of potentially obsolete machine code, is there
> some scheme for managing the native code cache? If so, is code being
> moved, or does it rest in the place it was generated into?

Yes, when a method's translation is unused for the time of 2 GCs, it
is discarded.

Paolo