review request (S) 6866585 debug code in ciObjectFactory too slow

[Tom Rodriguez]

>>> Would it be possible to put the check into the GC epilogue?   
>>> Probably not, since ciEnv guys are not statically allocated and  
>>> not easy to enumerate (one per active compile-thread task).  I  
>>> guess I do like the idea of checking a GC tick counter from the  
>>> CI, to throttle the paranoid check.  Best of all would be to have  
>>> some explicit linkage from the GC epilogue code to the CI, which  
>>> somehow documents and enforces the order invariance.  You can see  
>>> why this is awkward:  It is an invariant shared by the CI and the  
>>> GC.
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> Yes, i agree, if it's one per active compile task, may be it's best  
> to use
> yr strategy of eliding the check unless the full gc count changes.

John, couldn't this strategy allow us to reunify the handling of oops  
into a single table instead of needing the NonPermOop stuff?  If we  
simply re-sort the table when needed that code becomes simple again.   
It also makes us impervious to reordering concerns.

tom

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> -- ramki
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>> -- John
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