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Well, inlining is not necessary, good old interprocedure analysis would resolve it too.

• lewurm 3y ago
  Sure, but neither javac (the Java to bytecode compiler) or HotSpot are doing that. The former tries to preserve as much as possible, and for the latter interprocedure analysis is too costly at run-time.
  • anonymous-panda 3y ago
    Could javac do the analysis and record it in the bytecode for HotSpot to optimize? Or is this kind of hybrid teamwork not done?
    • mike_hearn 3y ago
      It is done, but for this case the problem is partial compilation. For this you'd need methods to be tagged as pure, but that assumption needs to propagate and it could be violated by a library being upgraded.