RFR: [9 Backport] Shenandoah string deduplication support

[Zhengyu Gu]

On 01/10/2018 04:24 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 01/10/2018 10:18 PM, Zhengyu Gu wrote:
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/shenandoah/sh_strdedup/backport_jdk9/webrev.00/
> 
> Thank you, this looks good.
> 
> How much was changed compared to sh/jdk10, and are there places we should take a special look at?
> I assume G1 changes are the retraction to the upstream jdk9 state?
> 

jdk10 patch applied pretty clean. The only file got mismerged was 
shenandoahRootProcessor.cpp.

Yes, G1 changes reverted early changes back to upstream state.

Thanks,

-Zhengyu


> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
>