RFR [10]: 8180423: Remove flag UseRelocIndex

[Claes Redestad]

Thanks, Vladimir!

/Claes

On 2017-05-16 18:07, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> Nice cleanup.
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
> On 5/16/17 8:27 AM, Claes Redestad wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the develop flag UseRelocIndex has been both disabled and broken
>> for quite some time and I think it should be removed (if the now
>> dead optimization is worthwhile it needs to be re-designed anyhow).
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180423
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8180423/hotspot.00/
>>
>> While some of this does show up in startup profiles, e.g.,
>> RelocIterator::create_index is called 242 times in one test,
>> the cost is definitely infinitesimal and this should be seen
>> primarily as cleaning out dead, broken and untested code.
>>
>> Testing: RBT hs-tier2,hs-tier3-comp
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> /Claes