RFR: 8254244: Some code emitted by TemplateTable::branch is unused when running TieredCompilation

Fri Oct 9 11:05:19 UTC 2020

On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 01:24:41 GMT, Igor Veresov <iveresov at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> On x86, arm, aarch64 and s390, TemplateTable::branch emits code to allocate a MethodData which is never called if
>> running TieredCompilation. Skipping it slightly reduces interpreter code size and results in a minor startup
>> improvement (~100k instructions less).  The PPC implementation differs significantly, and is left untouched.
>
> Marked as reviewed by iveresov (Reviewer).

Thanks for reviewing!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/564