[aspectc-user] Setting return value in advice very expensive

[Stefan Marr]

Hi:

We have here a simple around advice which replaces basically the original function and needs to return a value.

In our benchmark that leads to an overall performance impact of 10% which is quite a bit.
It is not exactly a tight loop but on the critical path of every interpreter action.

The advice reads as follows:

	advice execution("_VMFrame* Interpreter_get_frame()") : around() {
		pVMFrame frame = (pVMFrame)VMThread_get_safe_global(tsg_frame);
		*tjp->result() = frame;
	}

Are there any tips or hacks that could lead to less performance overhead?

Thanks
Stefan

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