RFR (XL): 8152664 - Support non-continuous CodeBlobs in HotSpot

[Andrew Dinn]

On 19/04/16 23:10, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 19, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Volker Simonis
>> <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If SAP (or anybody else outside Oracle) would submit such a kind of
>> XL change in order to better support let's say it's closed
>> HPUX/Itanium port I don't think it would be even considered.
> 
> I totally agree with you; it’s a double-standard and it’s
> frustrating.  Believe me, if it were up to me the AOT implementation
> would be open-source.  But I truly believe that the implementation
> will be opened up in a future JDK release.

Well, if not then someone might have a very nice time implementing an
open implementation. Our community is very resourceful :-)

> In general, it’s a nice refactoring and abstraction and could
> possibly help other projects like Sumatra if we ever get back to it.

Or indeed pave the way for an open implementation of AOT.

>> I don't want to reject these specific change (I came to terms with
>> it :) but I think this should stand as bad example for changes
>> which will not happen too often in the future.
> 
> Conversely, if you have changes you want to get it you can use this
> as a precedent :-)

I have already filed that point for easy retrieval . . .

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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