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Posted to dev@harmony.apache.org by Weldon Washburn <we...@gmail.com> on 2006/09/21 15:36:09 UTC
[drlvm][vm] vm_strings.cpp compressing to 8-bit (was "question about support for compressed StringBuffers")
All,
I took a look at this code. I vote for keeping it. The reason is because
Java is string intensive and historically things like string compression
make a difference to heap footprint and cache miss performance. It looks
like a significant amount of work has already been put in this code.
Craig,
It would be great if you can work on this code and get it going. I would be
happy to work with you to get the mods committed to Harmony svn.
From: *Craig Zilles <zi...@cs.uiuc.edu>*
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I noticed in the file trunk/vm/vmcore/src/util/vm_strings.cpp there
is some code to support the storage of strings in arrays of (8b)
bytes rather than arrays of (16b) unsigned shorts. In the debugger,
I placed breakpoints in this code, and it was never active in my run.
Can someone tell me the current status of this code and, if it is
active, how I can turn it on? (From inspecting the source, it looked
inactive via hardcoding "false" on whether to compress the strings).
I might be interested in working on this code.
- Craig
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Ivan Volosyuk to harmony-dev
More options Sep 20 (23 hours ago)
This is an old code and it is unused for quite some time. Most likely
it is broken.
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Ivan
On 9/20/06, Craig Zilles <zi...@cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> I noticed in the file trunk/vm/vmcore/src/util/vm_strings.cpp
there
> is some code to support the storage of strings in arrays of (8b)
> bytes rather than arrays of (16b) unsigned shorts. In the debugger,
> I placed breakpoints in this code, and it was never active in my run.
>
> Can someone tell me the current status of this code and, if it is
> active, how I can turn it on? (From inspecting the source, it looked
> inactive via hardcoding "false" on whether to compress the strings).
> I might be interested in working on this code.
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Geir Magnusson Jr. to harmony-dev
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So do we fix it or scrap it?
geir
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