RFR: 8055702 - Remove the generations array

[Jesper Wilhelmsson]

Hi all,

Resurrecting this thread from the past.
I got one review from Mikael, need another to clean this up.

Thanks!
/Jesper


Jesper Wilhelmsson skrev 22/8/14 15:20:
> Hi,
>
> This is the first part of the generation array removal. Here I remove the _gens
> array and introduce _young_gen and _old_gen instead. The main change is in
> GenCollectedHeap::do_collection() which used a loop to iterate through the
> generation array. I extracted the contents of that loop into a new method and
> call it with a reference to the generation to be collected.
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwilhelm/8055702/webrev/
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8055702
>
>
> More cleanups in this area are coming. Among other things I will remove from
> GenCollectedHeap: _n_gen, SomeConstants, get_gen(), next_gen(), prev_gen(),
> n_gens() and the concept of levels that is passed around all over the place.
> These will be replaced with a more explicit use of young and old as appropriate.
>
> All that is actually already done, it just needs to be split into more
> reviewable changes. Stay tuned.
>
> Thanks,
> /Jesper