Rollforwarding

Rollforwarding is a mechanism used in older versions of JRockit (pre R28) to bring a halted thread to a safepoint by emulating the instructions that remain before the next safepoint, modifying the context of the stopped thread.

See also Livemap and Safepoint.

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