Investigate treating StringTable as weak in young collections

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    • Type: Enhancement
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: P4
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    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Component/s: hotspot
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    • b06
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      Current STW collectors presently treat the StringTable as a strong root in young collections. This avoids the need to walk the StringTable and delete dead entries in a young collection. Instead it walks the StringTable and marks all the strings, as one of the in-parallel root marking phases.

      With the recent reimplementation of the StringTable using ConcurrentHashtable and OopStorage, treating it as a strong root rather than a weak root in young collections may no longer provide best performance.

            Assignee:
            Thomas Schatzl
            Reporter:
            Kim Barrett
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