-XX:+UseOldInlining (original) (raw)

Mikael Gerdin mikael.gerdin at oracle.com
Fri Jan 10 04:15:57 PST 2014

On Friday 10 January 2014 13.03.40 Mikael Gerdin wrote:

On Friday 10 January 2014 12.23.32 Aleksey Shipilev wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone remember the story behind -XX:+UseOldInlining? I have > googled, wandered through HotSpot code, searched through JIRA, grepped > through Mercurial to no avail. The history on this predates OpenJDK.

If, in the future, you want to dig around in the prehistoric source management system, check out OpenGrok: http://opengrok.ie.oracle.com:8080/opengrok/search?q=UseOldInlining&project= jdk7b23sccs&defs=&refs=&path=&hist=

Sorry, that's an internal url :(

/Mikael > In seems we have it unconditionally turned on. It makes the inlining > policy a little less understandable to have additional branch here and > there. Should we purge this option from the VM codebase? If so, I can > > prepare the proper revision of this scratch change: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/scratch/purge-old-inlining.patch > > Thanks, > -Aleksey.

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