RFR: 8374308: ImageBufferCache does not work as intended [v2]

[Alan Bateman]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 17:41:31 GMT, David Beaumont <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Remove ineffective/unused ImageBufferCache class, and simplify callers / remove dead code.
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>> I removed the release methods in the internal classes, but the public ModuleReader API method is still there (the override can go away though since the default implementation also tests for non-null, so removing the override has no risk).
>> 
>> I suspect there are no implementations of ModuleReader that implement release semantics after this change, so perhaps we could relax the documentation around it? Thoughts welcome.
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> David Beaumont has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   actually remove the class ...

> I suspect there are no implementations of ModuleReader that implement release semantics after this change, so perhaps we could relax the documentation around it? Thoughts welcome.

I think we should leave the API docs as is as it allows for a ModuleReader to use off-heap memory in the future.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29043#issuecomment-3711830260