RFR: 8267870: Remove unnecessary char_converter during class loading [v3]

Wed Jun 16 12:45:39 UTC 2021

On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 02:25:55 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> We create a String object from a Symbol, then swap the '/' for '.' characters, and create another String object.  Seems wasteful.  Removed java_lang_String::char_converted and made externalize_classname take a Symbol.
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>> Tested with tier1-3 in mach5.
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> Coleen Phillimore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Fix CHECK_NULL.

Thanks David and Ioi for the code reviews.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4173