Integrated: 8255271: Avoid generating duplicate interpreter entries for subword types

[Claes Redestad]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:19:59 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Top-of-stack optimizations are generally missing for byte, char, short and boolean, and for several types of entry points we already avoid generating entries and instead redirect to the int variant.
> 
> This patch removes generation of "specialized" variants for byte, char, short and boolean more thoroughly after verifying they all generate the same code as their int specialization. This slightly reduces overhead of generating the interpreter and the size thereof.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: cc861134
Author:    Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/cc861134
Stats:     75 lines in 5 files changed: 32 ins; 27 del; 16 mod

8255271: Avoid generating duplicate interpreter entries for subword types

Reviewed-by: iklam, coleenp

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/816