How to find out what optimizations the JVM applied to my code?

Question

The JVM (especially the HotSpot VM) is famous for having a huge number of optimizations it can apply at runtime.

Is there a way to look at a certain piece of code and se

Answer 1

This is highly JVM specific, and you will most likely need to do some serious investigation in the particular JVM you are looking at.

You can see the available HotSpot VM options here http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions-jsp-140102.html