RFR (M): 8060697: Improve G1 Heap Growth Heuristics

[Kim Barrett]

On Nov 25, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Tom Benson <tom.benson at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kim,
> Thanks very much for the review.  I've implemented all your suggestions.
> 
> About this:
> 
>> I suspect you are introducing some implicit conversions that will cause
>> problems for the SAP folks; see discussion of 8143215:
> 
> ... I think there's one, which is:
> 
>    expand_bytes = expand_bytes * scale_factor;
> 
> scale_factor is explicitly limited to being between 0.2 and 2.0, and expand_bytes is fraction of the heap size, so there's no chance of overflow.  Would you object to the static cast in this case?  How about with a comment?

A static_cast there would be fine with me.  And that’s the only one I see too.