RFR: 8339576: Speed up raw bytecode processing in ClassFile API

[Adam Sotona]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2024 22:41:38 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Currently, raw bytecode access goes through multiple wrappers, include one from ClassFile API and another ByteBuffer for merged big endian value reads. We can merge the ByteBuffer =into the ClassFile API one (RawBytecodeHelper) for safer access.
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> RawBytecodeHelper is also restructured so we avoid allocating it on the heap. Large `rawNext` method is now also inlined into the smaller `next` method.
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> Current benchmark results show this significantly speeds up `jdk.classfile.Write` and some degree of speedup for simple lambda startup. The impact on general application workloads is minuscule, but this doesn't seem to bring any regression.
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> Pinging @wenshao and @cl4es for review.

>From the Class-File API perspective the changes look good to me.

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Marked as reviewed by asotona (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20863#pullrequestreview-2282762266