Shenandoah and Graal?

[Roman Kennke]

Hi Lennart,


> I’ve noticed that Graal seems to have been integrated in the openjdk9
> sources as of build 150.
> 
> I’ve already mentioned I’m getting better and better results with
> Shenadoah, but since I’ve have got encouraging results when testing
> with the Graal compiler, I’d like to eventually try out
> graal+shenandoah.
> 
> Will that be possible? I’ve understood you’ve made shenandoah-related 
> updates to C2, so I’d like to ask if Shenandoah is currently
> dependent on C2 only?

Graal does currently not compile the barriers that are required for
Shenandoah. It's on our to-do list, but currently it's not possible.

Best regards,
Roman