RFR: 8151436: Leaner ArrayAllocator and BitMaps

[Per Liden]

Looks good!

/Per

On 2016-03-08 11:33, 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
>
> Thanks,
> StefanK