Volker Simonis — HotSpot Intrinsics

Volker Simonis, SAP — HotSpot Intrinsics Конференция JBreak 2016 Новосибирск, By definition, intrinsics are functions which are handled specially by the compiler or the VM. The HotSpot virtual machine supports intrinsics for specific API functions in the interpreter as well as in the C1 and C2 JIT compilers. In general, intrinsics are a great possibility for optimization. But they also come at a certain cost. First of all, they are inherently platform and implementation dependent. If available,