RFR: 7903912: JMH: Pad using a mix of bytes and longs [v3]

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 14:57:52 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Using a mix of bytes and longs we should get the gap-filling effect described in https://shipilev.net/jvm/objects-inside-out/#_observation_hierarchy_tower_padding_trick_collapse_in_jdk_15 while reducing size of generated code by roughly 20%:
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>> 864772  jmh-samples/target/jmh-samples-1.38-SNAPSHOT.jar
>> 490531  jmh-samples/target/jmh-samples-1.38-SNAPSHOT-sources.jar
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>> 684383 jmh-samples/target/jmh-samples-1.38-SNAPSHOT.jar
>> 399758 jmh-samples/target/jmh-samples-1.38-SNAPSHOT-sources.jar
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> Claes Redestad has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Make it 16 bytes and 32 longs

Thanks! Let's do it.

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Marked as reviewed by shade (Committer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jmh/pull/147#pullrequestreview-2534554342