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G1: Remove the Hot Card Cache

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    • Enhancement
    • Status: Resolved
    • P4
    • Resolution: Fixed
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    Description

      The purpose of the Hot Card Cache is to collect often dirtied cards during mutator time.

      Anecdotal evidence indicates that the HCC does not contribute meaningfully to performance because:
      - it is very small (JDK-8135064); an application doing lots of refinement will overflow it quickly
      - an application doing little refinement will not use it

      However its data structures use a card map across the whole heap, i.e. one byte per card, which is 0.2% of the heap. That memory could be used more usefully in other places.

      Test and investigate its usefulness, also taking the concerns for JDK-8135064 into account.

      There may also be better ways that use less memory to cause the same effect.

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              ayang Albert Yang
              tschatzl Thomas Schatzl
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