[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8253779: Amalloc may be wasting space by overaligning

Tue Oct 25 05:26:24 UTC 2022

One in a small chain of patches improving memory footprint of arena memory.

This pull request contains a backport of commit [ac75a53f](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/ac75a53fc513cce2a1aa266f0b7235d150a76c01) from the [openjdk/jdk](https://git.openjdk.org/jdk) repository.

The commit being backported was authored by Coleen Phillimore on 11 Jul 2021 and was reviewed by Kim Barrett and Thomas Stuefe.

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Commit messages:
 - Backport ac75a53fc513cce2a1aa266f0b7235d150a76c01

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/823/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk17u-dev&pr=823&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8253779
  Stats: 43 lines in 7 files changed: 2 ins; 20 del; 21 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/823.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev pull/823/head:pull/823

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/823