RFR: 8163878: Remove unnecessary bridge methods, allocations in java.lang.invoke

[Michael Haupt]

Hi Claes,

thumbs up - I'd appreciate if Aleksey could take a glance at the changes in the String concatenation logic though.

Best,

Michael

> Am 11.08.2016 um 10:55 schrieb Claes Redestad <claes.redestad at oracle.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> while further untangling the bootstrap of java.lang.invoke I found a number of trivial/minor/small contrivances, including:
> 
> - calling of private methods and constants in parent classes generates and heavily exercise synthetic bridge methods; carefully making more of these package-private cleans the air
> - use of MethodType.parameterList() and .subList() pull in extra classes in places I missed during JDK-8163370 analysis; preferring parameterType/parameterCount/Arrays.copyOf also reduces allocations
> - removed some pointless bookkeeping and duplicate checks of constant placeholders in InvokerBytecodeGenerator
> - since I was already changing around in StringConcatFactory I reworked some changes I made during JDK-8163370 that proved controversial
> 
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8163878/webrev.01/
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8163878
> 
> All in all -45K executed bytecodes and 9 fewer loaded classes in my favored startup test.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> /Claes

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