Moreover, HARMONY-5098 is the last chunk to add uncompressed references support to GC_GEN.
Other components (VM and JITs) are already corrected to support uncompressed references, and those changes did not introduce any regressions. 2007/11/28, Rana Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think that we should feel quite confident about it. All tests etc.pass at > this point, if we find bugs with larger benchmarks/apps, we will fix them. > So we should be OK :-) > > Rana > > On Nov 28, 2007 8:51 AM, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rana Dasgupta wrote: > > > One of the new features in DRLVM in this milestone is support for > > native 64 > > > bit references( we only supported 32 bit compressed references on 64 bit > > > architecture before and therefore accessibility upto 4GB ). Almost all > > the > > > feature work is done and committed The pending change is in > > Harmony-5098. > > > Pretty sure that it will be done reviewing/changes and will get > > committed by > > > Nov 30, but it may spill over by a day or two. Just a heads up. > > > > Is this something we (collectively) are happy to put in at the last > > minute? Is it something you would prefer people to use for a few weeks > > before declaring good enough for a milestone build? > > > > There should be no shame in moving it into the next milestone (which is > > why we want to hold them quite frequently, but I won't go on about that > > again :-) ). > > > > Regards, > > Tim > > > > > -- Ilya
