RFR: 8261744: Implement CharsetDecoder ASCII and latin-1 fast-paths [v4]

[Alan Bateman]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 23:16:00 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch exposes a couple of intrinsics used by String to speed up ASCII checking and byte[] -> char[] inflation, which can be used by latin1 and ASCII-compatible CharsetDecoders to speed up decoding operations.
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>> - Fast-path implemented for all standard charsets, with up to 10x performance improvements in microbenchmarks reading Strings from ByteArrayInputStream. 
>> - Cleanup of StreamDecoder/-Encoder with some minor improvements when interpreting
>> - Reworked creation of JavaLangAccess to be safely published for CharsetDecoders/-Encoders used for setting up System.out/in. As JLA and these encoders are created during System.initPhase1 the current sequence caused the initialization to became unstable and a few tests were consistently getting an NPE.
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>> Testing: tier1-3
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> Claes Redestad has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Revert JavaLangAccessImpl changes

Marked as reviewed by alanb (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2574