RFR: jsr166 jdk9 integration wave 12

[Martin Buchholz]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "jsr166 style" - makes it easy on javac and the JIT, if not for humans.
>>
> In some of the cases here, I'd consider it a significant JIT failure if
> the "jsr166 style" makes a difference (I'm not sure how this makes a
> difference to javac - did you mean interpreter?).  Is this jsr style a
> carryover from long ago? Maybe it needs to be reconsidered.  The code
> clarity isn't terrible, but it would be unfortunate to do this in simple
> cases where the compiler ought to handle it just fine - does it not?
>

I consider it a significant failure that

   1. JDK-6445664 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6445664>

Eliminate remaining performance penalty for using assert

still hasn't been fixed.