On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 06:31:14 GMT, David Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Whatever we choose we also need to consider the mt prefix of things like
> > mtGC, mtClass, etc.
>
> And what does that stand for: memory type? memory tracker? Arguably they
> should have been nmtGC etc.
The memflags.hpp file says that it's a memory type:
+#define MEMORY_TYPES_DO(f)
\
+ /* Memory type by sub systems. It occupies lower byte. */
\
+ f(mtJavaHeap, "Java Heap") /* Java heap
*/ \
My guess is that at some point there was an incomplete rename from "memory
type".
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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20497#issuecomment-2290832943
