RFR: 8305093: Linker cache should not take layout names into account [v2]

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 01:03:57 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Strip names from the function descriptors used in linkage requests. The names are not important for classification, and this will allow the cached MethodHandle/UpcallStubFactory to be shared across linkage request with the same structure, but with layouts that have different names.
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>> I also have another implementation that avoids copying all the layouts, and instead re-implemented equals and hashCode in the LinkRequest wrapper: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/compare/pr/13079...JornVernee:jdk:NoNameCache But, this seems too complex. Linking code is not very performance sensitive, so I instead went with a simpler approach in this patch.
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> Jorn Vernee has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   use al instead of ValueLayout.ADDRESS

Marked as reviewed by mcimadamore (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13562#pullrequestreview-1398171041