Latest PermGen elimination webrev

[Coleen Phillimore]

This looks good, John.   So glad you didn't have to add back secondary 
indexes.
I'll take it from here.   I might have questions along the way.
Thank you for doing this.

Coleen

On 8/15/2012 6:30 PM, John Rose wrote:
> I have made an initial merge of a recent snapshot of the PermGen work with the JSR 292 changes.
>
> If you are are involved in permgen or 292, please have a look at this early version:
>
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/7023639/webrev.permgen.00/
>
> This version barely compiles.  I have not tested it yet, but I think it has substantially the correct contents.
>
> Note that this version does not take into account recent changes (which have been small, I think) to either the hotspot-comp or permgen baselines.  The patch gives precisely the versions it bridges, as follows:
>
>> 7023639: JSR 292 method handle invocation needs a fast path for compiled code
>> This is a complex rebase of the following change set committed to hotspot-comp:
>>   1d7922586cf6 twisti Tue Jul 24 10:51:00 2012 -0700
>> The base of this patch is in the permgen repository:
>>   69b17ebee853 coleenp Thu Jul 26 12:13:45 2012 -0400
> — John
>
> On Jul 23, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>
>> This is the latest Permgen Elimination work.
>>
>> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/metadata7
>>
>> Merged with NMT and fixed some bugs.
>>
>> Coleen
>>
>> On 7/4/2012 12:51 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>>> The latest webrev of the Permgen Elimination work is available here:
>>>
>>> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/metadata6
>>>
>>> This is relative to this changeset in the hotspot-gc repository:
>>> changeset:   3462:3759236eea14
>>>
>>> Since the last published webrev there have been some bug fixes, cleanups and merging.   Please look at areas of interest to you and we welcome all comments.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Coleen