Request for reviews (XXL): 6961690: load oops from constant table on SPARC

David Cox david.cox at oracle.com
Mon Nov 15 06:23:42 PST 2010


On 11/15/10 2:45 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
>> Most important is why it is not under flag?
>
>
> Hmm, I never thought about putting it under a flag since in theory 
> materializing the constant table base address only once instead of 
> every time it's required should always be a win.

Paul also notes that the overall optimization may not be beneficial for 
all SPARC incarnations so having it switchable based upon chip version 
would be good.

Dave


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