RFR: 8260004: Shenandoah: Rename ShenandoahMarkCompact to ShenandoahFullGC

Roman Kennke rkennke at openjdk.java.net
Wed Jan 27 19:02:39 UTC 2021


On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:16:09 GMT, Zhengyu Gu <zgu at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this patch that renames ShenandoahMarkCompact to ShenandoahFullGC, to be consistent with other GCs.

This nomenclature might become problematic when generational Shenandoah becomes a thing. Then, what we do now, collecting the complete heap, as opposed to only the young generation, might be mistaken as 'full gc' too.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2266


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