RFR: 8031639: make dependency management (mostly) ci independent

[Doug Simon]

On Jan 23, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Roland Westrelin <roland.westrelin at oracle.com> wrote:

>> I assume that lines 106 and 107 above are incomplete.
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> Yes.
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>> How would you compute an ident for these values and ensure the indents for each of the 3 DepValue types don’t clash with each other? Or are you relying on a Dependencies client to either be using dep_ci_object (e.g., c1 and c2) or dep_metadata and dep_jobject (e.g., Graal) and the client ensures that ident values are unique for all DepValues added to a Dependencies object?
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> Yes, I would be relying on the fact that it’s either c1/c2 or graal.

Ok.

>> Maybe you could hum a few bars on the advantages of this approach? Is it mainly about avoiding all VM_ENTRY concerns?
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> It tries to use the CI objects without breaking into them. Anyway, I don’t find my solution pretty either. I’d like someone else from the team to take a look at this.

Sure. Just let me know if there’s any further input I can give. Thanks.

-Doug