RFR: 8170977: SparseArrayData should not grow its underlying dense array data

[Jim Laskey (Oracle)]

+1

> On Dec 22, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Hannes Wallnöfer <hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:
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> Please review:
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> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170977
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8170977/webrev/
> 
> With this we keep whatever is already allocated as dense array but do not grow it up to the dense array length limit internally. I also reduced the max dense array length as with 1 million dense elements we still risk to be very wasteful with memory.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hannes