RFR: 8319955: Improve dependencies removal during class unloading

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:29:46 GMT, Thomas Schatzl <tschatzl at openjdk.org> wrote:

> (During class unloading DependencyContext::delete_on_release() is and has always been false, and the existing code always moves entries to the purge list - there is an appropriate assert in the new code).

Thanks I can see that now. So all this does is move a chunk of elements to the purge-list instead of doing it one at a time. Makes me wonder why this wasn't noticed sooner. :)

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16639#issuecomment-1810069754