review request (S/M): 6962931 move interned strings out of perm gen

[John Coomes]

Tom Rodriguez (tom.rodriguez at oracle.com) wrote:
> I had assumed we'd be switching so that strings were always outside
> perm by default.  ScavengeRootsInCode must be != 0 once
> invokedynamic is enabled by default and since that's definitely
> going to be enabled in 7 don't we want to turn all this on?

I discussed this with Tom, so this is mostly for the list ...

I hadn't done any compiler-specific testing, so wasn't sure if there
were other parts of the compiler that might be impacted by this
change.  The impact is fairly small, so I'll change
ScavengeRootsInCode so it defaults to 1.

Other potential reviewers, don't wait for me to update the webrev; I
have meetings all day so it'll be tonight at the earliest.

-John

> On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:10 AM, John Coomes wrote:
> 
> > This moves interned strings from the perm gen into the regular heap.
> > The code was written by Tom Rodriguez; I've added a minor fix and done
> > the testing.  More info in the webrev:
> > 
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jcoomes/6962931-intern/
> > 
> > Thanks for any feedback.
> > 
> > -John
> > 
>