On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 19:39:30 GMT, Dean Long <dl...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> I think we could go even further and eventually fold the JNI critical region > into the existing safepoint mechanism. @dean-long you seem to be forgetting why it was folded out in the first place. :) This was performance critical JNI code where the thread-state transitions were too heavyweight and expensive to use. So we keep the thread safepoint-safe (`_thread_in_native`) and have a way to tell the GC to pause whilst we are in these critical regions. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23367#issuecomment-2638962365
