[armedbear-devel] Inline primitives as static method calls

[Alessio Stalla]

Attached is a patch + a Java class that tentatively implement
logicmoo's idea of "inlining" primitives as calls to static methods
(just for test on a single primitive, COPY-TREE).

The Java class, InlinedPrimitive, extends Primitive and implements its
execute() methods with static methods with a given name found in a
given class.
When interpreted or passed as a higher-order function an
InlinedPrimitive calls the static method through reflection, resulting
in slower performance than now.
But, when compiled it is translated as a direct call to the static
method, without passing through the symbol, which is faster than now
(I haven't measured how much faster).

Consider this patch as a rough draft - it must be polished if we ever
decide to include it. In particular "inlining" is always performed,
while we should probably avoid it with some debug/speed settings.

Bye,
Alessio
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