RFR: 8193193: immByteMapBase operand generated for non-CardTable GCs

[Andrew Haley]

On 11/12/17 16:04, Roman Kennke wrote:
> I wonder if it might be worth to keep the byte_map_base in a dedicated 
> register?

No, because we can usually do load_byte_map_base with something like

    adrp x1, 0x000003ff68410000

i.e. it's a single-clock instruction.

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Andrew Haley
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