RFR: 8313708: NMT: cleanup _mst_marker

[Gerard Ziemski]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 18:44:43 GMT, Gerard Ziemski <gziemski at openjdk.org> wrote:

> While learning the NMT code I came across _mst_marker and I don't really like how it combines 16bit index and 16bit position into single 32bit mst_marker using bit sizzling.
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> Consequently, right now we need the following 3 APIs: build_marker(), bucket_idx_from_marker(), pos_idx_from_marker() to support this. They are really not adding any value, in my opinion, and in fact obfuscate the code.
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> I'd like to propose that we simplify the code and pass a struct value (as suggested by Thomas) which hides away the 2 individual fields that are implementation detail.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15145#issuecomment-1699848886