Previously allocations of Arrays/TypedData from generated code would try to allocate objects of any size into new-space. These allocation sites would only end up allocating into old-space if new-space didn't have enough free space and the allocation takes the slow path into the runtime. This means the allocation space from generated code was unstable. This change makes the allocation policy consistent between generated code and C++: objects larger than kNewAllocatableSize are always allocated into old-space.
This change regresses the microbenchmarks Streams.callbacks and Streams.controller (-44% and -33% on x64) because they allocate large, short-lived arrays.
Change-Id: I81c65af305b45b6fd40ec81d4a4ddc015bfc039c
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/4300
Reviewed-by: Siva Annamalai <asiva@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Ryan Macnak <rmacnak@google.com>
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