RFR(S): 8015237: Parallelize string table scanning during strong root processing

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 12:00 -0700, John Cuthbertson wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Here's a new webrev for this change:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~johnc/8015237/webrev.1
> 
> Changes from before:
> * Refactored the code that loops over the buckets into its own
> routine.
> * Removed the commented out instrumentation (oops).
> * Changed the types to int to be consistent with the rest of
> symbolTable and allow removal of the casts.
> * Increase the number of buckets per claim to 32 based upon a verbal
> comment from John Coomes.
> * Removed the additional worker ID parameter for the sake of peace and
> harmony.

Looks good, thanks a lot.

Thomas