JEP 122: Remove the Permanent Generation

[Ismael Juma]

Hi Jon,

Jon Masamitsu <jon.masamitsu at ...> writes:
> Or are your asking about changes that are only visible
> internally to hotspot?  For example, not all the
> garbage collectors are working yet, there's still
> compiler (JIT) work that has to be completed,
> we need to better manage the native memory
> used for the class metadata (we expect that using
> malloc and free will lead to too much fragmentation
> in the Cheap),  Class Data Sharing still needs to
> be fixed and the list goes on.

This is indeed what I was asking. The bit about the Java heap is also good to 
know (and confirms what I was expecting). Thanks!

Best,
Ismael