JEP 189: Shenandoah: An Ultra-Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector

[Roman Kennke]

Am Mittwoch, den 05.02.2014, 13:00 -0500 schrieb Tony Printezis:
> Roman,
> 
> On 2/4/14, 6:39 PM, Roman Kennke wrote:
> >> Will Shenandoah try to reuse the existing write barrier logic in
> >> HotSpot and extend it to catch all field writes as opposed to just
> >> reference field writes, or will it use some other form of write
> >> barrier?
> > It uses the G1 barrier for SATB and extends it for the preemptive
> > copying.
> 
> But you didn't answer Krystal's question, though. :-) Given that the JEP 
> says "All writes to objects in targeted regions must first copy the 
> object and then write to the object in its new location", don't you have 
> to extend the write barrier for scalar writes too?

Oh yes, exactly this is the case.

Regards,
Roman