Request for reviews (XXL): 6961697: move nmethod constants section before instruction section

[Christian Thalinger]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 12:10 -0700, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
> > Did you do an experiment to find how much performance improvement it
> will buy us? I think we need to proceed with this huge changes only if
> we have benefits from it. Right?
> 
> Let's see how the new webrev looks.  I would be ok with holding back
> this change until we get the code generation for the constant table
> working to a point where we can evaluate it the performance effects.

I agree on that.  When I've finished the new webrev I will merge it with
the other workspace and do some performance evaluation.

-- Christian