RFR: 8356255: Add Stable Field Updaters to allow efficient lazy field evaluations [v11]

[Johannes Döbler]

On Fri, 9 May 2025 09:21:14 GMT, Viktor Klang <vklang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Per Minborg has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 24 additional commits since the last revision:
>> 
>>  - Revert unintended change
>>  - Revert unintended change
>>  - Remove unused factories and add comment
>>  - Merge branch 'master' into stable-updaters
>>  - Add composition of functions and MHs
>>  - Revert changes in stable classes
>>  - Add lazy CallSite methods
>>  - Reformat
>>  - Add convenience methods and documentations
>>  - Add low level variants
>>  - ... and 14 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/b9531363...9a58db6a
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/lang/stable/StableFieldUpdater.java line 697:
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>> 695:                 return f;
>> 696:             }
>> 697:         }
> 
> Is there a specific reason not to use `Class::getDeclaredField(name)`?

Class::getDeclaredField(name) throws NoSuchFieldException if not found.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25040#discussion_r2081336037