Integrated: 8330584: IGV: XML does not save all node properties

[Tobias Holenstein]

On Mon, 6 May 2024 12:06:20 GMT, Tobias Holenstein <tholenstein at openjdk.org> wrote:

> When C2 sends graphs over the network to IGV, each graph is sent separately. The same applies if C2 saves graphs to XML: each graph is saved with all it's nodes as a separate `<graph>...</graph>` in the XML
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> To save space, graphs that are saved from IGV only contains the incremental difference for each graph. This saves a lot of space (~5-10x). The logic happens in Printer.java -> `exportInputGraph(.., difference=true, ...)` Unfortunately, there is a bug in this logic: the properties of the nodes are not saved correctly. 
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> [graphs.zip](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/files/15220940/graphs.zip) contains 4 graphs: 
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> `graph_c2.xml` (230KB) - a XML saved from C2 
> `graph_igv_bug.xml` (73KB) - opened `graph_c2.xml` in IGV (without this fix) and save as `graph_igv_bug.xml`.
> `graph_igv_fixed.xml` (123KB) - opened `graph_c2.xml` in IGV (with this fix) and save as `graph_igv_fixed.xml `.
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> As you can see `graph_igv_fixed.xml` is twice as large as `graph_igv_bug.xml` because it contains the missing properties. But now the memory saving from the original `graph_c2.xml` is only ~2x. 
> Therefore a new format for saving is added: graphs can now be saved and opened from IGV as `.igv`. This uses a compressed (ZIP) format. 
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> `graph.igv` (10KB) is the same graph as `graph_c2.xml` (230KB). But it uses difference graph compression and ZIP compression and is in total 23x smaller in memory footprint. 
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> E.g. The root in the last graph of difference_true.xml has way less properties than in difference_false.xml.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 391bbbc7
Author:    Tobias Holenstein <tholenstein at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/391bbbc7d0fb95b0cd55e2f56c43bee019aeab7f
Stats:     147 lines in 3 files changed: 79 ins; 16 del; 52 mod

8330584: IGV: XML does not save all node properties

Reviewed-by: rcastanedalo, chagedorn

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19104