When Should a Compiler Expand Garbage Collection Barriers?
Posted on February 16, 2024
This post describes a case in a production compiler (C2, the JDK’s optimizing JIT compiler) where we have figured out that the right trade-off is to actually reduce the amount of program information fed to the compiler....
More at https://robcasloz.github.io/blog/2024/02/14/when-should-a-compiler-expand-garbage-collection-barriers.html