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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this
+ * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+ * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+package com.oracle.truffle.api.nodes;
+
+import com.oracle.truffle.api.*;
+
+/**
+ * Represents a rough estimate for the cost of a {@link Node}. This estimate can be used by runtime
+ * systems or guest languages to implement heuristics based on Truffle ASTs.
+ *
+ * @see Node#getCost()
+ */
+public enum NodeCost {
+
+    /**
+     * This node has literally no costs and should be ignored for heuristics. This is particularly
+     * useful for wrapper and profiling nodes which should not influence the heuristics.
+     */
+    NONE,
+
+    /**
+     * This node has a {@link CompilerDirectives#transferToInterpreter()} or
+     * {@link CompilerDirectives#transferToInterpreterAndInvalidate()} as its first unconditional
+     * statement.
+     */
+    UNINITIALIZED,
+
+    /**
+     * This node represents a specialized monomorphic version of an operation.
+     */
+    MONOMORPHIC,
+
+    /**
+     * This node represents a polymorphic version of an operation. For multiple chained polymorphic
+     * nodes the first may return {@link #MONOMORPHIC} and all additional nodes should return
+     * {@link #POLYMORPHIC}.
+     */
+    POLYMORPHIC,
+
+    /**
+     * This node represents a megamorphic version of an operation. This value should only be used if
+     * the operation implementation supports monomorphism and polymorphism otherwise
+     * {@link #MONOMORPHIC} should be used instead.
+     */
+    MEGAMORPHIC;
+
+    public boolean isTrivial() {
+        return this == NONE || this == UNINITIALIZED;
+    }
+
+}