On Sep 16 2013, at 19:37 , David Holmes wrote: > Reviewed both hotspot and jdk changes. > > Thumbs up and good riddance! :) > > How do you propose to handle the coordination of the push?
The hotspot and jdk changes can go in any order. I plan to push them sequential after cross platform test build along with the closed source portion. The closed portion has to happen after the open jdk repo makefile changes. Mike > > Thanks, > David > > On 17/09/2013 10:16 AM, Mike Duigou wrote: >> Hello all; >> >> This is a cross-repo patch which disables building and enabling of the >> alt-rt.jar file. The alt-rt.jar file has been used with the >> -XX:+AggressiveOpts option (which will be remaining for other >> optimizations). This jar file formerly contained (closed-source) versions of >> several JDK classes which were optimized for very specific workloads. The >> implementations weren't generally applicable and in many cases induced >> performance drops. In particular since we will not be providing optimized >> implementations of the Java 8 streams API for the alternate versions of >> these classes the performance relative to the standard implementations would >> be poor. >> >> Over time we've (largely Alan Bateman) been trying to eliminate this >> difficult to support feature. With this changeset the alt-rt.jar feature is >> retired. >> >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/JDK-8024826/0/webrev/ >> >> Ideally I would like a reviewer for both the HotSpot and JDK repos (could be >> the same person). >> >> Mike >>
