RFR: 8293170: Improve encoding of the debuginfo nmethod section [v6]

[Evgeny Astigeevich]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 12:04:32 GMT, Boris Ulasevich <bulasevich at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The nmethod "scopes data" section is 10% of the size of nmethod. Now the data is compressed using the Pack200 algorithm, which is good for encoding small integers (LineNumberTable, etc). Using the fact that half of the data in the partition contains zeros, I reduce its size by another 30%.
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>> Testing: jtreg hotspot&jdk, Renaissance benchmarks
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> Boris Ulasevich has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   minor renaming. adding encoding examples table

src/hotspot/share/code/compressedStream.hpp line 135:

> 133:   CompressedSparseDataReadStream(u_char* buffer, int position) : CompressedBitStream(buffer, position) {}
> 134: 
> 135:   void set_position(int pos) {

Are there uses of it? If no, let's remove it.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10025