Re: RFR: 8034944: (process) Improve subprocess handling on Solaris

2014-03-23 Thread Rob McKenna
Hi folks, Roger Riggs (cc'd) may want to chip in here as he's looking at the reaper thread arrangement in 9 at the moment. On another note, I too support the merging of those files. I didn't think there was much appetite for it at the time so I must admit this fell down my todo list. Looking

Re: #8014320 would benefit from #5100935

2014-03-23 Thread Joe Darcy
Hello, The description of 5100935 is: JDK-5100935 No way to access the 64-bit integer multiplication of 64-bit CPUs efficiently From the most recent comment in the bug, the straw-man API for this is something like: For the (int, int) -> long case, "multiplyFull". For the high bits o

Re: [9] Review request: new macro for conversion to jboolean

2014-03-23 Thread Alan Bateman
On 21/03/2014 15:22, Sergey Bylokhov wrote: On 3/21/14 7:10 PM, roger riggs wrote: The macro would just as useful (if I understand the cases) without the cast. How useful is a simple definition as: #define IS_TRUE(obj) ((obj) ? JNI_TRUE : JNI_FALSE) then it would look ok to see these in sour

Re: RFR: 8034944: (process) Improve subprocess handling on Solaris

2014-03-23 Thread Alan Bateman
On 22/03/2014 23:47, Peter Levart wrote: : I took an exercise in re-factoring to see what it would take to merge all 4 files into one. There is a long standing bug proposing that the implementations be merged (Martin will remember some of the history on this). I would prefer that we keep this

#8014320 would benefit from #5100935

2014-03-23 Thread Tim Buktu
Posting to the list because I can't add comments on http://bugs.openjdk.java.net. I just wanted to point out that if #5100935 were implemented, it would allow for a speed improvement of an estimated 20% for SS multiplication in the 20,000 - 80,000 digit range. There are other improvements to 8014