RFR (S) 8136500: Integer/Long getChars and stringSize should be more idiomatic

[Paul Sandoz]

> On 23 Nov 2015, at 16:08, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11/23/2015 04:34 PM, Ivan Gerasimov wrote:
>> With this fixed patch:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/8136500/8136500-addition-1.patch
>> all tests from test/lang pass.
>> 
>> Would you give it another chance?
> 
> Okay, but this is better be the last non-cosmetic change to board this
> departing train:
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8136500/webrev.05/
> 

+1

Nice cleanup.

Paul.

> This passes java/lang, java/util tests, and performance improvement is
> still very good.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
>