RFR: 8310849: Pattern matching for instanceof and arrayType cleanup in j.l.invoke and j.l.reflect [v3]

[Joe Darcy]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:51:25 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch touches java.lang.reflect and java.lang.invoke packages. It replaces instanceof + cast with pattern matching and updates  Array.newInstance().getClass() patterns with arrayType() for obtaining array types of a class.
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> Chen Liang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   simplify equals by replacing if with and operators

Marked as reviewed by darcy (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14642#pullrequestreview-1499363946