[9] RFR(S): JDK-8039498: Add iterators to GrowableArray

[Christian Thalinger]

That’s good thinking.  I like the change.

On Apr 9, 2014, at 3:19 AM, Tobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> please review the following patch.
> 
> Problem:
> The implementation of "JDK-8015774: Add support for multiple code heaps" needs to manage multiple code heaps in the code cache. They will be stored in a GrowableArray data structure. Frequent accesses to the array using indices make the code more unreadable and error prone and result in code duplication.
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8039498
> 
> Solution:
> To simplify the access to the code heaps, the GrowableArray is adapted to support STL-style iterators. Further, custom iterators allow to only iterate over elements that satisfy a given predicate. This helps to access only specific code heaps.
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~anoll/8039498/webrev.01/
> 
> Tests:
> JPRT with segmented code cache implementation (to be reviewed)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tobias