Review request: 8015428: Remove unused CDS support from StringTable

[Christian Thalinger]

On May 27, 2013, at 4:35 AM, Stefan Karlsson <stefan.karlsson at oracle.com> wrote:

> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8015428/webrev.00/
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> <http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8015428>8015428  <http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8015428>: Remove unused CDS support from StringTable
> Summary: The string in StringTable is not used by CDS anymore. Remove the unnecessary code in preparation for8015422  <http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8015422>: Large performance hit when the StringTable is walked twice in Parallel Scavenge

I'm adding interned strings back to CDS right now with 8015086.  The changes should be okay though since I'll have two string tables then and we only need to walk the dynamic one.

-- Chris

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> Tested with JPRT and ad-hoc benchmark allocating and deallocating interned Strings with and without -Xshare.
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> thanks,
> StefanK
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