[jmm-dev] Java thread dynamic memory allocation

[Manavjeet Singh]

Thanks for the information.

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 1:02 AM Jeremy Manson <jeremymanson at google.com> wrote:

> Hi Manavjeet,
>
> In general, the Hotspot GC dev mailing list
> <https://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/hotspot-gc-dev> might be
> a better place for this sort of question. This is a list for discussing how
> threads interact in Java.
>
> Typically, the new operator in Java code is compiled into a new bytecode.
> The new bytecode is either interpreted or compiled at runtime.  There is
> therefore not necessarily a single place it is implemented.  In Hotspot (if
> that's what you are looking at),  it's defined separately for each
> interpreter and compiler.  The engineers take care to make sure that all of
> the implementations do the same thing.  Here's the one for the
> interpreter for x86
> <https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/cpu/x86/templateTable_x86.cpp#L4000>.  All
> of the implementations fall through to a common slow path in
> oops/instanceKlass.cpp.
>
> If you have more questions, the experts at gc dev can help you.
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:24 AM Manavjeet Singh <
> manavjeet18295 at iiitd.ac.in> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> I am currently studying GC and java memory model. From the code, I
>> understand that GC provides a TLAB to each thread for unsynchronized
>> allocation of the non-humongous objects. But I am not able to understand
>> what happens when a "new" operator is called in java code. Is the function
>> that tackles this "new" operator defined in JavaThread class or some other
>> routine is called.
>> Can you please correct me if I am assuming something wrong, and point me
>> to
>> relevant functions so that I can understand better.
>> Thanks and regards
>> Manavjeet Singh
>> CSD Undergraduate | 2018295
>> Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIITD)
>>
>