[m-rev.] diff: specialised MethodPtr interfaces

[Peter Wang]

On 2009-09-03, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Peter Wang wrote:
> 
> >Branches: main
> >
> >On the Java backend, use specialised MethodPtr interfaces so that when calling
> >a method pointer input arguments do not have to be passed via a temporary
> >array, for arities up to 15.  For higher arities the temporary array is still
> >used.
> 
> How much of a difference does this make?

Summing 0..1000000 one hundred times, with higher order calls to `int.plus':

Before: 6505 ms
After:  4130 ms

Peter
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