JEPs proposed to target JDK 9 (2016/10/19)

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On 10/20/16 12:04 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
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>> On Oct 19, 2016, at 12:51 PM, Vladimir Kozlov
>> <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com <mailto:vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/19/16 3:31 PM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
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>>>
>>> On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com
>>> <mailto:john.r.rose at oracle.com>
>>> <mailto:john.r.rose at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>>>    On Oct 19, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:vitalyd at gmail.com>
>>>    <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','vitalyd at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:vitalyd at gmail.com>');>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    I think David must be talking about stripping the binary to just
>>>>    the set of methods known to be used - think of internal linkage,
>>>>    like static functions in C which may just get inlined and aren't
>>>>    present in the binary.  So in Java AOT, closest parallel would be
>>>>    a private method but of course that's callable at runtime, so I
>>>>    don't see how AOT can just omit it entirely.
>>>
>>>    AOT supports deoptimization and re-JIT-ing, so it would be easy to
>>>    omit methods from AOT output, and just use interpreter or JIT to
>>>    handle the execution.
>>>
>>> This would have to be opt-in, I'd imagine, as otherwise it would defeat
>>> the purpose of AOT.  Or it would have to very limited where it does this.
>>
>> re-JIT-ing (generating profiling code in AOT methods) is triggered by
>> --compile-for-tiered flag. By default is off.
>> But AOT code is following the same deoptimization rules as normal
>> JITed code. For example, class unloading or redefinition.
>>
>>>
>>> Separately, what optimizations (if any) will be done in AOT? Clearly
>>> there's no profiling info, which is where the big gains typically come
>>> from, but will anything be done? For example, are loops optimized
>>> (unrolled, unswitched, etc)? Are statically known (at AOT time) callees
>>> inlined? Or is it basically C1 level of optimization (i.e. very minimal)?
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>> Currently it is C1 level only or even less - based on CHA without
>> profiling information. We may add profiling information feedback in a
>> future.
>> No C2 type loop optimizations - Graal-core does some but not all.
>> Also in tiered mode AOT code contains profiling code similar to Tiered
>> level 3 in current Tiered compilation.
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> I think you mean level 2 (unless something changed since I left).

Yes, level 2. My mistake here.

Vladimir

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>> AOT code is immutable - have to do indirect klass loads and calls.
>> Also klass loading in AOT code is lazy - it has dynamic checks for
>> class loading.
>>
>> In short - do not expect good peak performance from current AOT code.
>> That is why we added --compile-for-tiered to re-JIT to get peak
>> performance.
>>
>> We bet on compiled static initializers and skipping Interpreter for
>> startup improvement.
>>
>> Vladimir
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    AOT could do stuff like tree shaking (static call graph
>>>    minimization) or enforcement of strong encapsulation, but it doesn't
>>>    yet.  It's early days for this technology.
>>>
>>>
>>>    — John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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