Re: JFokus 2015 - the VM Tech Day

2015-01-19 Thread Marcus Lagergren
And to further clarify things - you can attend _only_ the VM Tech day / tech summit, should you so desire, and skip the rest of the JFokus conference. (What a strange thing to do, given the quality of JFokus, but I can’t be the one questioning your priorities here) (http://www.jfokus.se/jfokus/

Re: [9] RFR (M): 8063137: Never-taken branches should be pruned when GWT LambdaForms are shared

2015-01-19 Thread Vladimir Ivanov
Thanks, Vladimir! I would suggest to add more detailed comment (instead of simple "Stop profiling") to inline_profileBranch() intrinsic explaining what it is doing because it is not strictly "intrinsic" - it does not implement profileBranch() java code when counts is constant. Sure, will do.

Re: [9] RFR (M): 8063137: Never-taken branches should be pruned when GWT LambdaForms are shared

2015-01-19 Thread MacGregor, Duncan (GE Energy Management)
Okay, I¹ve done some tests of this with the micro benchmarks for our language & runtime which show pretty much no change except for one test which is now almost 3x slower. It uses nested loops to iterate over an array and concatenate the string-like objects it contains, and replaces elements with t