RFR: 8329750: Change Universe functions to return more specific Klass* types [v2]

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 13:42:02 GMT, Stefan Karlsson <stefank at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I sort of see now but am getting squint lines.  It's not important for performance to eliminate a virtual call here.
>
> Hmm. Having two `array_klass` calls were not intentional. I accepted Dean's suggestion in the GitHub UI, but that didn't remove the old `array_klass`. I think I'll revert that change given that it is not important to devirtualize this.

Oh good because I was going to need a lot more coffee to understand why there was a second call.  Thanks.

-------------

PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18652#discussion_r1555900867