JEP 291: Deprecate the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) Garbage Collector

[Mario Torre]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Jesper Wilhelmsson
<jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com> wrote:

> The code in the cms directory can pretty much be ignored in the build, but
> there is a lot of shared code that could be substantially cleaned up if CMS
> is no longer supported. This cleanup needs to be done and the parts that CMS
> still needs must be moved to the cms directory in order for us to be able to
> say that this code is no longer supported.

Just a thought.

Considering the amount of work Shenandoah developers are putting into
making sure that shared code is reduced to a minimum, it seems like a
great opportunity to synchronise and make the GC interface even more
abstract.

I understand there's little interest in refactoring the CMS code if
it's considered dead anyway (at least for Oracle), on the other end it
seems that you still need to at least do part of this work, and the
long term benefit seems to warrant a look at this option.

Cheers,
Mario