RFR: 8341587: [premain] Support Soft/Weak Reference in AOT cache [v2]

[Mat Carter]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:53:55 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > @iklam How soon can this be upstreamed? I think I might be working on MH recently and I hope we can simplify the cache and avoid conflicts down the road by a quick upstream to mainline JDK.
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> I think this change can be upstreamed to the mainline. @macarte, do you want to create a PR for the mainline? I can help run it through our testing pipeline, as we need to do more testing for mainline changes.

I can create the PR for mainline, we'll need a JBS Item.  

One question though: this commit has no flags to disable adding WeakReferences to the cache, is this okay for tip or should we add a flag?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/leyden/pull/41#issuecomment-2683319324