Fwd: G1 now the default in JDK 9

[Ben Evans]

Hi Dalibor,

I completely agree. However, as I said when this was first proposed, the
community only has a certain amount of bandwidth with which to conduct
forward testing. I'm concerned that we're asking for a lot between now &
next September.

Furthermore, this type of testing is harder to do at hackdays as it
involves runtime behaviour of compete applications, rather than compile
time "does this work?" or "try out this API" sessions. The cases we
actually want to hit are not amenable to easy testing on a weekend in a
public place.

Not saying we shouldn't do it - just urging people not to expect too much
from HackDay sessions.

I'm thinking of a couple of ways to tackle this, but need some more time to
bake them - will contact you offlist after those discussions.

Thanks,

Ben

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:33 PM, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>
wrote:
> It might be nice if 'test your app with G1 and provide feedback' could
> become a typical hackday activity, I think, as the GC team is asking for
> feedback:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2015-June/019221.html
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
> On 02.07.2015 04:45, Mani Sarkar wrote:
>>
>> FYI - to all those who case about G1GC.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mani
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Stefan Johansson <stefan.johansson at oracle.com>
>> Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:14 AM
>> Subject: G1 now the default in JDK 9
>> To: "jdk9-dev at openjdk.java.net" <jdk9-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A short heads up. The change to make G1 the default garbage collector has
>> now made its way to jdk9/dev [1] and should soon be part of a JDK 9 early
>> access build.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stefan
>>
>> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/hotspot/rev/d472d1331479
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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