RFR: 8309751: Duplicate constant pool entries added during default method processing [v5]

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 14:06:39 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This uses Ashutosh's patch to avoid adding duplicate constant pool entries during default method processing, with one change to make it conditional if not needed. I tested this locally and started writing a test, but writing a test is more difficult because duplicate constant pool entries don't actually violate the spec.
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>> Tested with tier1-4 and ran some startup performance benchmarks on the patch.
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> Coleen Phillimore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Removed unused local var.

Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18548#pullrequestreview-1990185138