Project proposal: Remove the Permanent Generation

[Tomas Hurka]

Hi Jon,

On 2 Jun 2012, at 00:48, Jon Masamitsu wrote:

> This is the webrev for the latest sync with hotspot-gc.   Most changes are cleanups
> or bug fixes.  One large change is the removal of the (unused for a while now)
> perm gen from the generational hierarchy.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/6964458/webrev.00/
> 
> As we've said the pervasive renaming of data structures will be done
> just before we integrate in order to ease the burden of the syncs.
> 
> Now's the time to look at the code in your area of interest.
I just took a brief look at the webrev above and I was surprised by the changes in 
attachListener_solaris.cpp <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/6964458/webrev.00/src/os/solaris/vm/attachListener_solaris.cpp.udiff.html> 
and os_windows.cpp <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/6964458/webrev.00/src/os/windows/vm/os_windows.cpp.udiff.html>.
It looks like they have nothing to do with the removal of the Permanent Generation.

Bye,
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