RFR (L) JDK-8195100: Use a low latency hashtable for SymbolTable

[Stuart Monteith]

Thanks, I'll keep an eye on 8209138 and test when necessary.

On 16/08/18 18:17, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> On Aug 16, 2018, at 11:02 AM, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
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>> This seems reasonable as a trivial fix.
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>> There's also a bug https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8209138 which questions the history of making Symbol data u1.  It should just be char, I believe.
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> I’ve linked those two bugs, with a comment in 8209138, to help keep track of this.
> Otherwise, fixing 8209138 without testing on arm/aarch64 might break the fix for
> 8209586 in the other direction.
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