RFR: 8287442: Reduce list to array conversions in java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles [v2]

[Claes Redestad]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 15:06:48 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Claes Redestad has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Review comments, eagerly convert sooner in tryFinally
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/invoke/MethodHandles.java line 5269:
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>> 5267:     }
>> 5268: 
>> 5269:     static MethodHandle dropArguments(MethodHandle target, int pos, Class<?>[] valueTypes, boolean trusted) {
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> Having a boolean that flips the behaviour makes it harder to know what that `true` or `false` literal at the call site does. I'd suggest splitting this into `dropArgumentsTrusted`, which doesn't clone the array, and `dropArguments` which always makes a copy (and the latter calls former). WDYT?

Yeah, that sounds better.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8923