Are there any optimizations, such as dead code elimination, involved when translating java source files to bytecodes?
Are there any optimizations, such as dead code elimination, involved when translating java source
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Are there any optimizations, such as dead code elimination, involved when translating java source files to bytecodes?
The standard Java compilers do few optimizations on the emitted bytecodes. I think that the reasoning is that unoptimized bytecodes will be easier for the HotSpot JIT compiler to optimize.
The links that @Mitch Wheat provided in comments above (particularly the 2nd one) date from the days when HotSpot JIT was new technology.