review request (M): 7121140: Allocation paths require explicit memory synchronization operations for RMO systems

[Roland Westrelin]

> Could you do a longer set of specjvm98 to confirm the jess difference?  Looking at the data, I don't really think it's real but another, longer set of runs should tell us that.  Try 20.

See below.

Roland.

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t1
  Benchmark         Samples        Mean     Stdev
  specjvm98              20      666.33      0.00
    javac                20      392.47      0.01
    db                   20      438.68      0.00
    jess                 20      699.73      0.01
    jack                 20      593.50      0.01
    compress             20      536.20      0.00
    mtrt                 20     1786.87      0.02
    mpegaudio            20      851.56      0.01
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t2
  Benchmark         Samples        Mean     Stdev   %Diff    P   Significant
  specjvm98              20      666.90      0.00    0.08 0.518            *
    javac                20      392.72      0.02    0.06 0.895            *
    db                   20      439.33      0.00    0.15 0.342            *
    jess                 20      700.23      0.01    0.07 0.760            *
    jack                 20      590.51      0.01   -0.50 0.047            *
    compress             20      537.69      0.01    0.28 0.230            *
    mtrt                 20     1794.64      0.01    0.44 0.333            *
    mpegaudio            20      852.44      0.01    0.10 0.678            *
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