[jdk11u] Backport the fix of JDK-8180450 to JDK 11?

[Andrew Haley]

On 10/21/24 12:13, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Well, if we had backported a bugfix to, say, 11.0.23 that spoils performance,
> this would be a performance regression we introduced during
> support. Such a regression we should probably fix because it makes
> a younger update worse that an older one.  People updating would
> suddenly get a problem.
> 
> This one has been there previous to 11 as I understand, so it
> is not a regression of 11 or one of it's updates.

Oh, I see. Thanks.

The bug goes back 20-some years, so it's never been a regression. I think
the reason it's marked as a bug (rather than an enhancement) is that the
misbehaviour was never something that John Rose intended. He was the reporter
of the bug, as well as an original author of the code, so I guess he knows.

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