RFR: 8138659: Speed up InstanceKlass subclass discrimination

[Kim Barrett]

On Oct 9, 2015, at 11:40 AM, Stefan Karlsson <stefan.karlsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kim,
> 
> On 2015-10-07 18:02, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> Another round, with some name changes that resulted from discussion
>> with StefanK and Coleen.  Also, Coleen convinced me some functions
>> weren't needed.
>> 
>> New full and incremental webrevs:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8138659/webrev.02/
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8138659/webrev.02.inc/
> 
> Looks OK. Reviewed.

Thanks.

> As we've discussed offline, this patch changes the type-checking functions from:
> […]
> to:
> […]
> I would prefer if we could rename the first four functions to:
> […]
> to keep a slightly more consistent naming scheme. But this should be done as a separate RFE.

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8139203