http://hg.openjdk.java.net/aarch32-port/jdk9-arm3264 merged

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/10/16 16:48, Bob Vandette wrote:

> I’d like to have a discussion soon on the future direction of the
> JDK 9 version of the aarch32 port relative to Oracle’s contribution.
> 
> Can we shoot for a phone call or email exchange discussion on the
> first week of November?  This should give everyone over 2 weeks to
> take a look at our contribution.
> 
> I realize that JDK 9 is still under development but if we’d like
> integrate an ARM implementation into JDK 9.1, we should start the
> process pretty soon.

OK, we should talk about that.

Re the AArch64 port: I've gone quiet because I'm checking it out, but
it's tricky and it's taking far longer than I'd expected.

It turns out to be extremely hard to get benchmarks running on JDK9.
SPECjvm2008 doesn't run unless it's altered, and the reporting
restrictions mean that any results can't be published.  Only a subset
of the DaCapo benchmarks run.  DaCapo doesn't have the nice harness
that SPECjvm has, so getting reasonably stable measurements is
difficult.  At least SciMark runs reasonably stably.

Andrew.