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Re: Array marking

To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>
Subject: Re: Array marking
From: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 18:47:51 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>, java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <3900EAAE.D9221332@albatross.co.nz><200004220005.RAA23371@ferrule.cygnus.com><390102B0.EFDABE80@albatross.co.nz>

Bryce> I did that, and I got the bitmap-marking-descriptor stuff
Bryce> working.  Together they seem to be worth some pretty serious
Bryce> performance gains - some of my gc tests are running 40 - 50%
Bryce> faster now, and ShellSort is now twice as fast as the IBM JDK
Bryce> (using --no-bounds-check).

Wow!
We definitely need to make this the default once it is all working.
We can just add -fuse-boehm-gc to the spec file when the Boehm GC is
in use.
This is cool stuff.

Tom

References:
- Array marking
  - From: Bryce McKinlay
- Re: Array marking
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: Array marking
  - From: Bryce McKinlay

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