Parallel and concurrent sweeping.

src/flag-definitions.h

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 DEFINE_bool(incremental_marking, true, "use incremental marking")
 DEFINE_bool(incremental_marking_steps, true, "do incremental marking steps")
 DEFINE_bool(trace_incremental_marking, false,
             "trace progress of the incremental marking")
 DEFINE_bool(track_gc_object_stats, false,
             "track object counts and memory usage")
 #ifdef VERIFY_HEAP
 DEFINE_bool(verify_heap, false, "verify heap pointers before and after GC")
 #endif
 
+DEFINE_bool(parallel_sweeping, false, "enable parallel sweeping")
+DEFINE_bool(concurrent_sweeping, false, "enable concurrent sweeping")

[Michael Starzinger, 2013/01/24 17:15:54]

As discussed offline, for now it makes sense to have both flags until we
stabilize the implementation. Later we should unify them into one.

[Hannes Payer (out of office), 2013/01/25 10:46:49]

Done.

+DEFINE_int(sweeper_threads, 1,
+           "number of parallel and concurrent sweeping threads")
+
 // v8.cc
 DEFINE_bool(use_idle_notification, true,
             "Use idle notification to reduce memory footprint.")
 // ic.cc
 DEFINE_bool(use_ic, true, "use inline caching")
 
 #ifdef LIVE_OBJECT_LIST
 // liveobjectlist.cc
 DEFINE_string(lol_workdir, NULL, "path for lol temp files")
 DEFINE_bool(verify_lol, false, "perform debugging verification for lol")
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 #undef DEFINE_bool
 #undef DEFINE_int
 #undef DEFINE_string
 #undef DEFINE_implication
 
 #undef FLAG_MODE_DECLARE
 #undef FLAG_MODE_DEFINE
 #undef FLAG_MODE_DEFINE_DEFAULTS
 #undef FLAG_MODE_META
 #undef FLAG_MODE_DEFINE_IMPLICATIONS