[Mono-devel-list] [PATCH] VTable layout

[Ben Maurer]

Hello,

I sent this patch to the list a while ago, however now that we have done
a release, I thought it would be a good time to get this patch reviewed
and checked in, as it would maximize the amount of testing time before
another release.

This patch removes non-virtual and static methods from the vtable. It
reduced the vtable usage on mcs bootstrap by 2/3rds (the vtables are not
40 some kb, they were 120 some).

A changelog:

      * class.c -- do not insert non-virtual methods in the vtable 
      * icall.c, mono-debug-debugger.c, object.c: if method->slot == -1,
        that means the method is non-virtual. This never would have
        happened before.

No regressions occur on the mini regression tests, the mono tests, nor
the corlib tests.

-- Ben
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