RFR: 8151436: Leaner ArrayAllocator and BitMaps

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi Stefan,

On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 11:33 +0100, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Please review this patch to remove the state variables from 
> ArrayAllocator and make it an AllStatic class instead. The main 
> motivation for this patch is to cleanup the BitMaps data structure
> and 
> make the instances smaller.
> 
> The patch builds on the fact that the current code invokes
> AllocateHeap 
> with the default value AllocFailEnum:EXIT_OOM, and therefore never 
> returns NULL. This means that use_malloc will never be reset and the 
> allocation strategy used (malloc or mmap) can be determined by simply
> looking at the size input parameter. Instead of changing the code to
> use 
> AllocateHeap with AllocFailEnum::RETURN_NULL, I chose to keep the 
> current behavior so that we could cleanup and minimize the size of
> our 
> BitMaps.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8151436/webrev/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8151436

  looks good.

Thomas