Withdrawn: 8306697: Add method to obtain String for CONSTANT_Class_info in ClassDesc

[Chen Liang]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:12:48 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Add a method `internalName` to `ClassDesc`, and unifies handling of string representation of a class constant in CONSTANT_Class_info via `ofInternalName` and `internalName` APIs, documented in `ClassDesc` itself. In particular, `ofInternalName` now accepts arrays.
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> The motivation of this API is that avoiding frequent String creations via caching (enabled by this new API, will be in a separate patch) would speed up Classfile API's [writing of simple class files](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/jdk/classfile/Write.java) by 1/3. See https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/classfile-api-dev/2023-April/000296.html for more context.
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> This API is futureproof: for Valhalla's Q-types, it will return their string representation in CONSTANT_Class_info, which is most likely their full descriptor string.
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> Javadoc: https://cr.openjdk.org/~liach/8306697/java.base/java/lang/constant/ClassDesc.html

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13598