RFR: 8261731: shallow copy the internal buffer of a scalar-replaced java.lang.String object

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:39:51 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hmm, actually it was easy solved with `-XX:DisableIntrinsic=_min` :(
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>> This intrinsic was implemented long ago. the code is used for `arraycopy` optimization. But for some reason it does not work here.
>> 
>> I think this should be investigated first-first.  It would be interesting to see performance effects if we disable this intrinsic at all.
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> You seem to have had a run-in with these intrinsics causing issues before: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8039104 - is this a similar issue?
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> On a trivial micro adding together a few Math.min values the intrinsic seem to have no effect on my x64 system, down to generating the exact same assembly.

Thanks @cl4es. I forgot about that bug.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2570