[10] RFR: 8179224: Cache strlen of Flag::_name

[Claes Redestad]

Hi,

startup profiling shows we're spending a surprising amount of cycles 
checking flag constraints and value ranges due to scanning the list of 
flags once for every range/constraint, which means we do more than 300k 
calls to Flag::find_flag.  A complete and elegant fix to this should 
consider rewriting the algorithm, e.g., emitting lists of flags, ranges 
and constraints in lexical order to allow for linear scans, or even 
better inline the range and constraint structs into the Flag struct[1].

However, it turns out most (>80%) of the measured overhead at startup 
can be avoided by simply caching the result of doing 
strlen(Flag::_name), thus I propose this partial (and temporary?) fix:

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8179224
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8179224/hotspot.01/

Testing: various hotspot command line tests locally and in rbt

Thanks!

/Claes

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8178991