[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: 8242029: AArch64: skip G1 array copy pre-barrier if marking not active

Tue Apr 7 09:55:53 UTC 2020

On 4/7/20 8:19 AM, Nick Gasson wrote:

The patch looks good, thanks.

> This patch adds a check to skip the call unless marking is in
> progress. X86 already has this optimisation and I can't see a reason not
> to do it on AArch64 as well.

Indeed not. I don't quite remember the history of this, but I guess
that this optimization was added to x86 after we did AArch64.

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