com.bea.jvm
Interface CodeGenerationStrategy

All Superinterfaces:

Describable

public interface CodeGenerationStrategy

extends Describable

A representation of the code generation strategy used to generate code for a method or constructor.

Typically the JVM will choose a strategy depending on profiling data telling the cost/benefit ratio of a methods usage and the 'cost' of regenerating the method using a certain strategy.

Author:

Marcus Hirt

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getDescription() Returns a description of the code generation strategy.
int	getLevel() Get a numerical 'optimization level' for this OptimizationLevel.

Method Detail

getLevel

public int getLevel()

Get a numerical 'optimization level' for this OptimizationLevel. It is assumed that increasing numbers represent more expensive code generation, and hopefully better generated code.

Returns:

see above.

getDescription

public java.lang.String getDescription()

Returns a description of the code generation strategy.

Specified by:

getDescription in interface Describable

Returns:

the description as a String.

See Also:

Describable.getDescription()