RFR: 8374308: ImageBufferCache does not work as intended [v4]

[David Beaumont]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 11:03:45 GMT, David Beaumont <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Remove ineffective/unused ImageBufferCache class, and simplify callers / remove dead code.
>> 
>> 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.
>
> David Beaumont has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   simplifying allocation and argument checks

src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/jimage/BasicImageReader.java line 390:

> 388:             }
> 389: 
> 390:             if (read != size) {

Since the size check already happened in the caller, this check is never triggered, and if the rounding is removed, the limit() call isn't needed, so this method collapses into a single allocate method call which can be inlined.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29043#discussion_r2664615982