Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days

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Native Methods and Libraries

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Disadvantages of native Methods ............................................................ 404

The Illusion of Required Efficiency ........................................................ 405

Built-In Optimizations ...................................................................... 407

Simple Optimization Tricks............................................................... 407

Writing native Methods .......................................................................... 408

The Example Class ............................................................................ 409

Generating Header and Stub Files ..................................................... 410

Creating SimpleFileNative.c .............................................................. 414

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