review(M): 7144296: PS: Optimize nmethods processing

[John Coomes]

Igor Veresov (igor.veresov at oracle.com) wrote:
> Thanks, John! 
> Here the updated webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iveresov/7144296/webrev.01/

Looks good to me.  And thanks for fixing my typos :-).

-John

> On Friday, February 10, 2012 at 4:50 PM, John Coomes wrote:
> 
> > Igor Veresov (igor.veresov at oracle.com (mailto:igor.veresov at oracle.com)) wrote:
> > > This change does two things: 
> > > 1. Prunes the "scavenge roots in code" list after each minor GC.
> > > 2. Promotes objects pointed by code directly into the old gen, instead of ping-ponging them in the survivor spaces.
> > > 
> > > Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iveresov/7144296/webrev.00/
> > 
> > Looks good. Minor suggestion - you could use a typedef and get
> > meaningful names for the closures, e.g.,
> > 
> > typedef PSRootsClosure<true> PSScavengeRootsClosure;
> > typedef PSRootsClosure<false> PSPromoteRootsClosure;
> > 
> > To keep the existing name (PSScavengeRootsClosure) the same at the use
> > points, the template class has to be renamed. I used PSRootsClosure,
> > but any other name would work.
> > 
> > -John 
>