RFR(M): 8026253: New type profiling points: sparc support
Roland Westrelin
roland.westrelin at oracle.com
Thu Jan 9 00:35:08 PST 2014
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~roland/8026253/webrev.00/
The main difference with the x86 code is that on sparc, the current profile value is loaded, checked & updated and finally stored rather than checked & updated in place as is done on x86. As a consequence the code is somewhat simpler because concurrent updates to the profile are not possible.
Roland.
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