RFR: 8297864: Dead code elimination [v2]

Fri Dec 2 15:05:10 UTC 2022

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 03:06:27 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hmm I think this warrants closer inspection to ensure there isn't a bug because something is unused (e.g. `is_in_asgct()` code in forte.cpp).
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> Also IIRC Loom knowingly integrated a lot of code that will only come in to play in future previews and so it may not be appropriate to cull it now. Perhaps @pchilano can comment?
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I took a look at the Loom related dead code. I see it's mostly just unused short helper methods, but other than that don't see any removal that would add complexity with future work. If some of those actually turn out to be useful we can bring them back with the related change.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11439