On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:09:18 GMT, Jatin Bhateja <jbhat...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is not just a good idea to trigger OSR and therefore use the intrinsic, 
>> it's a good idea because very long data causes an extended time to 
>> safepoint. I'd support in all cases limiting the size to about a megabyte, 
>> which is what we have here.
>
> Agree with @theRealAph ,  loop induces safe point on back edges which gives 
> opportunity to gc epochs.

> As Andrew points out, giving an intrinsic lots of data, 'backdoors/breaks' a 
> lot of existing algorithms.. from GC not happening because of no safepoint 
> inside the intrinsic, to OSR..
> 
> .. and (what I believe to be issue for performance here) the call count 
> (CompilationThreshold) to get the intrinsic to compile (well, the callee) in 
> the first place. Though as I pointed in the original issue, I am not entirely 
> convinced it was the call count that got the intrinsic back in; 
> experimentally, chunking got the 'outer intrinsic' to compile. (There is an 
> inner intrinsic that works on 16 byte chunks)

Please update the comments in the code accordingly.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22300#discussion_r1860834512

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