What flags are enabled by -XX:+AggressiveOpts on Sun JRE 1.6u20?

Question

From Sun JRE performance tuning whitepaper, -XX:+AggressiveOpts flag is described as:

Turns on point performance optimizations that are

Answer 1

Check out this blog post to find out without needing to dive into the code. http://q-redux.blogspot.com/2011/01/inspecting-hotspot-jvm-options.html

Answer 2

To check it for particular release:

java -XX:-AggressiveOpts -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal -version > no_agg
java -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal -version > agg

And then make diff (diff -U0 no_agg agg).

For example, jdk 1.7.0_51:

-     bool AggressiveOpts                           := false           {product}
+     bool AggressiveOpts                           := true            {product}

-     intx AutoBoxCacheMax                           = 128             {C2 product}
+     intx AutoBoxCacheMax                           = 20000           {C2 product}

-     intx BiasedLockingStartupDelay                 = 4000            {product}
+     intx BiasedLockingStartupDelay                 = 500             {product}

-     bool UseFPUForSpilling                         = false           {C2 product}
+     bool UseFPUForSpilling                         = true            {C2 product}

Jdk 1.8.0:

-     bool AggressiveOpts                           := false           {product}
+     bool AggressiveOpts                           := true            {product}

-     intx AutoBoxCacheMax                           = 128             {C2 product}
+     intx AutoBoxCacheMax                           = 20000           {C2 product}

-     intx BiasedLockingStartupDelay                 = 4000            {product}
+     intx BiasedLockingStartupDelay                 = 500             {product}

-     bool EliminateAutoBox                          = false           {C2 product}
+     bool EliminateAutoBox                          = true            {C2 product}

-     bool UseFPUForSpilling                         = false           {C2 product}
+     bool UseFPUForSpilling                         = true            {C2 product}