-XX:+UseOldInlining

[Mikael Gerdin]

On Friday 10 January 2014 12.23.32 Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone remember the story behind -XX:+UseOldInlining? I have
> googled, wandered through HotSpot code, searched through JIRA, grepped
> through Mercurial to no avail. The history on this predates OpenJDK.

If, in the future, you want to dig around in the prehistoric source management 
system, check out OpenGrok:
http://opengrok.ie.oracle.com:8080/opengrok/search?q=UseOldInlining&project=jdk7b23_sccs&defs=&refs=&path=&hist=

/Mikael

> 
> In seems we have it unconditionally turned on. It makes the inlining
> policy a little less understandable to have additional branch here and
> there. Should we purge this option from the VM codebase? If so, I can
> prepare the proper revision of this scratch change:
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/scratch/purge-old-inlining.patch
> 
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey.