RFR: 8159467: AArch64: Enable compact strings

[Andrew Haley]

On 13/07/16 15:47, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 07/13/2016 05:24 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Compact strings are now complete enough to be enabled by default.
>>
>> The patch also includes the deletion of a couple of incorrect lines
>> code which supposedly disabled biased locking.  This code never worked,
>> never did anything, and biased locking has always been on by default.
> 
> Come again? Are you saying that
> 
>    77 define_pd_global(bool, UseBiasedLocking, false);
> 
> ...did not disable BiasedLocking on AArch64?

Yeah.  Really not.  BiasedLocking is a product flag, not a product_pd
flag, so it didn't do anything.

>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8159467
> 
> +1

Thanks,

Andrew.