RFR: Avoid evacuating filler objects in Shenandoah
Roman Kennke
rkennke at redhat.com
Wed Aug 30 21:13:54 UTC 2017
Hi Zhengyu,
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/shenandoah/sh_filler/webrev.00/index.html
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Zhengyu
Is the motivation for this change that we can check that the objects we
are evacuating are not filler objects?
I don't really understand what you mean by:
> Using fake filler array klass seems to have less side-effects,
> especially on upstream collectors.
>
> The drawback is that, we still evacuate small object fillers, since fake
> filler object is not easy.
>
I'm probably missing some context ;-)
Roman
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