RFR: 8299072: java_lang_ref_Reference::clear_referent should be GC agnostic
David Holmes
dholmes at openjdk.org
Tue Dec 20 08:15:50 UTC 2022
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:05:34 GMT, Erik Österlund <eosterlund at openjdk.org> wrote:
> The current java_lang_ref_Reference::clear_referent implementation performs a raw reference clear. That doesn't work well with upcoming GC algorithms. It should be made GC agnostic by going through the normal access API.
So `clear_referent` is made GC agnostic, but then all the existing GC's are changed to use the original raw version? Why do they not use the GC agnostic version - performance?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11736
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