Array marking

Fri Apr 21 18:47:00 GMT 2000

Bryce> I did that, and I got the bitmap-marking-descriptor stuff
Bryce> working. Together they seem to be worth some pretty serious
Bryce> performance gains - some of my gc tests are running 40 - 50%
Bryce> faster now, and ShellSort is now twice as fast as the IBM JDK
Bryce> (using --no-bounds-check).
Wow!
We definitely need to make this the default once it is all working.
We can just add -fuse-boehm-gc to the spec file when the Boehm GC is
in use.
This is cool stuff.
Tom