RFR: 8251462: Remove legacy compilation policy [v5]

[David Holmes]

Hi Igor,

On 28/01/2021 2:46 am, Igor Veresov wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:13:20 GMT, Igor Veresov <iveresov at openjdk.org> wrote:
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>>> Looks better now. I would like to see result of performance testing before approving.
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>> I asked Eric to run the benchmarks. The results should be ready on Wednesday.
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> The benchmarking is done. No regressions. There are mild improvements in startup benchmarks on the order of 1-5% (I suspect because of the compilation policy devirtualization).
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> @dholmes-ora, do still plan to look at this? It's been a few weeks, I'd like to push this.

No I only perused this and made a couple of comments, now addressed.

I'll leave a full review to others.

Thanks,
David

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> PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1985
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