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

[Chen Liang]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:53:14 GMT, Mandy Chung <mchung at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Chen Liang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Relax displayName spec
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/constant/ClassDesc.java line 278:
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>> 276: 
>> 277:     /**
>> 278:      * {@return a human-readable name for this {@code ClassDesc}}
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> 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?

I believe the specification for class or interface display name is too tight: if we have `java.awt.List` versus `java.util.List`, our current implementation prints `List` for both cases. It makes sense for an implementation to print something like `j.a.List` versus `j.u.List`.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20665#discussion_r1811560821