JEP 147: Reduce Class Metadata Footprint

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Wed Feb 29 23:49:10 PST 2012


* mark reinhold:

> Posted: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/147

This part:

|  - Limit the number of mallocs, and the resultant per-malloc block
|    overhead, when allocating memory for a loaded class. Most of the
|    class is laid out in one large malloc allocation.

seems to overlap with JEP 122, which adds classloader-specific memory
allocation pools.

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