RFR: 8160821: VarHandle accesses are penalized when argument conversion is required [v3]

[Chen Liang]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 23:41:04 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Since access descriptor is created for each VH operation site, we can optimistically cache the adapted method handle in a site if the site operates on a constant VH.  Used a C2 IR test to verify such a setup through an inexact VarHandle invocation can be constant folded through (previously, it was blocked by `asType`)
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> Chen Liang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Tweak VH usage in some classes

Since I removed the return type dropping VarHandle bypass, TestGetAndAdd became affected because it can no longer access the x86 assembly. Updated the Java calling convention to fix it.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28585#issuecomment-3599477724