RFR: 7903508: JMH: Remove the Unicode dot prefix from secondary results

[Claes Redestad]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:51:25 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > 👍 - AFAICT we primarily use the `-rf json` output and shouldn't be adversely affected much by this change.
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> All outputs are affected, unfortunately, because that prefix is the part of the result name, not just a rendering klutch in text output. But it would only change the names for results coming from profilers, and individual results from group benchmarks.

Ok. At worst we'd have to do some data cleanup to make sure we don't break any data trends for historical comparison purposes, but AFAICT we don't have any hard dependencies on the names. We even lug around some code to strip these dots in places for presentation purposes.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jmh/pull/115#issuecomment-1651393403