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Re:Adding JIT-compilation to a toy interpreter by tormeh on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @11:06AM (#9772076)
-march=native to the people! BTW, does anyone know whether the jvm compiles java code with processor-specific instructions i.e. beyond the common denominator amd64?
Re:Adding JIT-compilation to a toy interpreter by papercrane on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @12:01PM (#9772498)
Yes. For example, the hotspot VM can make use of AVX and AVX2 instructions if supported by the CPU.

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/hotspot/file/87ee5ee275...