RFR: 8007806: Need a Throwables performance counter

[Alan Bateman]

On 23/02/2013 23:35, David Holmes wrote:
>
> Before we rush down this path. Atomic operations on 64-bit types are 
> not supported natively on all 32-bit platforms. Atomic updates on 
> those platforms will degenerate into locking - which is the barrier to 
> implementing frequently used counters in the first place.
I understand, and clearly more work/investigation is required, but I 
think it's worth looking into, particularly if Nils and others are going 
are adding further counters and instrumenting code dynamic to use them.

-Alan