RFR: 8338979: Avoid bootstrapped switches in the classfile API [v2]

[Chen Liang]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:49:25 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Noticed these on a few startup tests in code generating proxies. Desugaring switch expressions reduce risk of bootstrap circularity from any future changes to switch bootstrapping (which itself depends on the classfile API). It's also a tiny improvement to startup performance.
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> Claes Redestad has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Copyright

Thanks for this early bootstrap cleanup. The options cleanup is especially useful if we want to convert jli code gen to maual stack maps.

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Marked as reviewed by liach (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20714#pullrequestreview-2260740085