RFR: 8349176: Speed up Integer/Long.toString via StringConcatHelper::newArray [v3]

[Roger Riggs]

On Fri, 2 May 2025 03:55:24 GMT, Shaojin Wen <swen at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The byte[] allocated in Integer/Long.toString is fully filled, so we can use StringConcatHelper::newArray to create byte[] to improve performance.
>
> Shaojin Wen has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains eight commits:
> 
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into allocate_un_init_202501
>    
>    # Conflicts:
>    #	src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Integer.java
>    #	src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Long.java
>  - use StringConcatHelper.newArray
>  - simplify
>  - use Unsafe.allocateUninitializedArray
>  - revert StringConcatHelper newArray change
>  - copyright
>  - remove duplicate check
>  - allocateUninitializedArray

The StringConcatHelper methods should not be used outside of StringConcat.

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Changes requested by rriggs (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23353#pullrequestreview-2812563398