RFR: 8075045: AARCH64: Stack banging should use store rather than load
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Mon Mar 16 11:53:11 UTC 2015
At present, stack banging uses a load rather than a store instruction.
We have discovered that on some AArch64 implementations a store
performs considerably better but on no implementation is it worse.
Therefore, at least for the time being, all stack bangs should use a store.
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8075045/
Andrew.
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