RFR: JDK-8148951: Remove unused method Generation::performs_in_place_marking()

[Bengt Rutisson]

On 2016-02-03 14:24, David Lindholm wrote:
> Bengt,
>
> Your change looks good. Reviewed.

Thanks, David!

Bengt

>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> On 2016-02-03 13:47, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Could I have a couple of reviews for this small cleanup?
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8148951/webrev.00/
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8148951
>>
>> The methods Generation::performs_in_place_marking() is documented as 
>> that it should be used by biased locking. But it is currently unused 
>> and a "hg grep performs_in_place_marking" does not indicate that it 
>> was ever used.
>>
>> Currently it is only used in two asserts, but these operate on a 
>> young or an old generation instance, where 
>> performs_in_place_marking() adds no value since it returns true for 
>> old generations and false for young.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bengt
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