RFR: 8356255: Add Stable Field Updaters to allow efficient lazy field evaluations [v10]

[Per Minborg]

On Thu, 8 May 2025 15:28:20 GMT, David Beaumont <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Per Minborg has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Add composition of functions and MHs
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> test/jdk/java/lang/StableValue/StableFieldUpdaterExampleTest.java line 183:
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>> 181:     static
>> 182: 
>> 183:     public final class MhFoo {
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> I'm assuming this is explicitly the "behind the scenes" raw version of it in case anyone want's to step off the well-lit path. Hard to comment without seeing any surrounding docs. I don't suppose a link to the docs in which these are given can be added (just to give context for future maintainers)?

I have removed the unchecked factories now. I do not think we need them, and if we do, we could always add them back later.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25040#discussion_r2081205297