Improve function compilation times for swarm application startup.

vm/object.h

Index: vm/object.h
===================================================================
--- vm/object.h	(revision 3380)
+++ vm/object.h	(working copy)
@@ -2633,6 +2633,15 @@
 
   virtual intptr_t CharSize() const;
 
+  bool Equals(const String& str) const {
+    if (raw() == str.raw()) {
+      return true;  // Both handles point to the same raw instance.
+    }
+    if (str.IsNull()) {
+      return false;
+    }

[Ivan Posva, 2012/01/18 19:44:30]

Do you want to inline the hash check here?

[siva, 2012/01/18 20:01:06]

As discussed offline, introducing the hash check seems to degrade performance. I
think additional checks introduced do not pay off enough.

On 2012/01/18 19:44:30, Ivan Posva wrote:

+    return Equals(str, 0, str.Length());
+  }
   bool Equals(const String& str, intptr_t begin_index, intptr_t len) const;
   bool Equals(const char* str) const;
   bool Equals(const uint8_t* characters, intptr_t len) const;