Re: Testing RTALK on JDK8 MLVM

2012-07-19 Thread John Rose
On Jul 19, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Mark Roos wrote: > Is there any way from within ( or from a debug agent ) to tell hotspot to > forget all optimization? Not really. There is -Xint which runs only in the interpreter. And -client or -XX:TieredStopAtLevel=1 which turns off C2. > I also see a few

Re: Testing RTALK on JDK8 MLVM

2012-07-19 Thread Mark Roos
Thanks John, don't jump right in to my report. I'll look into it more and I really don't want to sidetrack you. I did run with several flag choices ( server, tiered, debug agent ) and found only about a 10% difference after I let hotspot stabilize. I am pretty sure I don't have Christian's pa

Re: Testing RTALK on JDK8 MLVM

2012-07-19 Thread John Rose
On Jul 18, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Mark Roos wrote: > While generally faster than 7u2 I do have a strangeness in that when my > target is a chain of methodHandles its much slower then when my target > is a methodHandle-callsite-chain of handles. My second case is where I add > a debugging trap at th

Testing RTALK on JDK8 MLVM

2012-07-18 Thread Mark Roos
FWIW Everything RTALK works on Stephen's 7/11/2012 build. Thank you Stephen. While generally faster than 7u2 I do have a strangeness in that when my target is a chain of methodHandles its much slower then when my target is a methodHandle-callsite-chain of handles. My second case is where I ad