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

Monica Beckwith monica.b at servergy.com
Fri Jan 17 21:18:18 UTC 2014


+1 (on FOSDEM talk and Volker's question). And I can help with testing 
on PPC as well.

-Monica

On 1/17/14, 3:09 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi Roman, Christine,
>
> I'm really looking forward to hear your talk about Shenandoah on FOSDEM.
>
> But now that you already asked for questions:
>
> Will you design the new collector with weak memory model architectures
> in mind. I know that it is hard if you don't have the corresponding
> hardware but I think RedHat should at least have access to some decent
> PowerPC machines and I would strongly advise you to test there
> thoroughly from the very beginning. We had (and still have) a lot of
> problems with G1 on these architectures.
>
> Regards,
> Volker
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Roman Kennke <rkennke at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Sorry being so silent... we are very happy that the Shenandoah JEP has
>> finally been posted and would welcome any comments, questions,
>> discussion from the community.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Roman
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, den 15.01.2014, 11:49 -0800 schrieb
>> mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
>>> Posted: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/189
>>>
>>> - Mark
>>




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