RFR (trivial): 8216285: Enable inlining of CollectedHeap::obj-/array-/class_allocate

[Claes Redestad]

On 2019-01-08 12:35, Roman Kennke wrote:
>>> Those methods are virtual. How useful is it to flag them 'inline' ?
>>
>> Useful enough to measurably save a few ns/op on Array.newInstance and
>> Object.clone microbenchmarks (when running TieredStopAtLevel=1 to stay
>> in the JNI slow path).
> 
> If a method is virtual, it cannot be inlined, right? Unless you call it
> in a funny non-virtual way. Or what am I missing?

Could be these are the only implementations when compiling without
shenandoah so gcc realizes the virtual can be ignored?

/Claes