[9] RFR (M): 8035828: Turn on @Stable support in VM

[Christian Thalinger]

Maybe both flags should be diagnostic?  At least FoldStableValues.  It’s nothing a regular customer would turn off on a daily basis but it might be helpful for diagnosing problems.

On Feb 26, 2014, at 6:25 AM, Vladimir Ivanov <vladimir.x.ivanov at oracle.com> wrote:

> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vlivanov/8035828/webrev.00/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8035828
> 
> @Stable was added in 8 (back in September, 2013) as an experimental feature. Future JSR292 performance improvements rely on it, so it should be turned on by default.
> 
> Also, as part of this change, I integrate unit tests on @Stable. They were part of initial implementation [1], but were broken when the annotation was moved to java.lang.invoke and made package-private. It blocked their integration. Now they are fixed.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Best regards,
> Vladimir Ivanov
> 
> [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vlivanov/8001107/webrev.04/