RFR: 8338544: Dedicated Array class descriptor implementation [v6]

[Mandy Chung]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:50:29 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> @cl4es discovered that Stack Map generation in ClassFile API uses `componentType` and `arrayType` for `aaload` `aastore` instructions, which are currently quite slow. We can split out array class descriptors from class or interfaces to support faster `arrayType` and `componentType` operations.
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>> Tentative, as I currently have no way to measure the actual impact of this patch on the startup performance; however, this made the `ClassDesc` implementations much cleaner.
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> Chen Liang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Relax displayName spec

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/constant/ClassDesc.java line 278:

> 276: 
> 277:     /**
> 278:      * {@return a human-readable name for this {@code ClassDesc}}

I don't see the merit of making the string representation unspecified.   The implSpec already specifies the string representation for the display name.   Why not just promoting it to normal spec text?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20665#discussion_r1811374200