RFR(XL): 8185640: Thread-local handshakes

[Andrew Haley]

On 27/10/17 14:14, Robbin Ehn wrote:
> We are discussing the opt-out option, the newest suggestion is to make it 
> diagnostic. Opinions?

We're working on ultra-low-pause-time garbage collection, and it would be very
useful to be able to safepoint the interpreter at any bytecode, not at jumps.
It is a performance-related option rather than diagonstic.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
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