RFR: 8252093: formula used to calculate decaying variance in numberSeq

[stefan.johansson at oracle.com]

On 2020-09-01 11:22, Albert Yang wrote:
> No significant change is observed for SPECjbb2015 scores with and 
> without this patch, using G1, Shenandoah and Z.
Sounds good.
> 
> GC logs show slightly more GC cycles (before: 357 and after: 389) in ZGC 
> with this patch, and no significant change for G1 and Shenandoah.
> 
Did you compare the total runtime of the two ZGC runs, the extra cycles 
could be caused warmup taking much longer in the second run.

Stefan