RFR: 8283541: Add Statical counters and some comments in PhaseStringOpts [v2]

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 18:08:30 GMT, Xin Liu <xliu at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Add 3 counters for `OptimizeStringConcat`.  Total is the total number of StringBuilder/Buffer.toString() encountered.  if it matches, it is either merged or replaced. 
>> 
>> 1. For each StringConcat, increase `total` counter.
>> 2. merged: this phase realizes that it can coalesce 2 StringConcats, or 
>> 3. replaced: this phase replace a StringConcat with a new String. 
>> 
>> In the following example, javac encounters 79 StringConcats, 4 of them are merged with their successors.  41 have been replaced.  The remaining 34 are mismatched in `build_candidate`. 
>> 
>> $./build/linux-x86_64-server-fastdebug/images/jdk/bin/javac -J-Xcomp -J-XX:+PrintOptoStatistics
>> 
>> --- Compiler Statistics ---
>> Methods seen: 13873  Methods parsed: 13873  Nodes created: 3597636
>> Blocks parsed: 42441  Blocks seen: 46403
>> 50086 original NULL checks - 41382 elided (82%); optimizer leaves 13545,
>> 3671 made implicit (27%)
>> 36 implicit null exceptions at runtime
>> StringConcat:   41/   4/  79(replaced/merged/total)
>> ...
>
> Xin Liu has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8283541
>  - bring back multiple. further simplify the interface.
>  - 8283541: Add Statical counters and some comments in PhaseStringOpts

Changes seem fine.

This code become almost obsolete after [JEP 280](https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/280)

You may need to test with `-XDstringConcat=inline` to exercise this C2's code more.

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Marked as reviewed by kvn (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7933