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mstoodle

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About mstoodle

know some stuff about compilers, especially JITs, creator of the JitBuilder library at the open source Eclipse OMR project (also co-lead)

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    Comment #15273725

    The IBM SDK for Java is based on OpenJDK, just like most (not all) other Java releases that are out there. IBM does not have "its own full JDK".

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    Comment #15273708

    Eclipse OpenJ9's -Xgcpolicy:metronome is one of those GCs. Depending on how you well you configure your operating system, it defaults to 3ms pauses along with an application utiliz…

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    Comment #15273692

    You're showing the sum of all times, but do the times at least look better after the first run (with -Xshareclasses anyway) ? Depending on how smoothly your experimentation went, y…

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    Comment #15267033

    That frees a block of native memory, not an arbitrary Java object...

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    Comment #15267015

    You could also check out Eclipse OpenJ9's -Xgcpolicy:metronome option. It only works on Linux X86-64 at the moment, but it is designed to better regulate GC pauses. If you want to …

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    Comment #15266979

    I opened an issue where discussion on OS X support can happen: https://github.com/eclipse/openj9/issues/36

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    Comment #15266946

    Eclipse OpenJ9 builds on top of Eclipse OMR. Eclipse OMR has OS X builds ... What a great thing it would be to have OpenJ9 building and running on OS X :) ! Disclaimer: I am a proj…

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    Comment #13769564

    Sorry David, but I need to speak against this 5 year old paper of yours. I strongly disagree (and always have) with your statement that repurposing a statically typed JIT is limiti…