RFR: 8366178: Implement JEP 526: Lazy Constants (Second Preview) [v28]

Mon Nov 17 11:38:04 UTC 2025

On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:34:21 GMT, Per Minborg <pminborg at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Implement JEP 526: Lazy Constants (Second Preview)
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>> The lazy list/map implementations are broken out from `ImmutableCollections` to a separate class.
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>> The old benchmarks are not moved/renamed to allow comparison with previous releases.
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>> `java.util.Optional` is updated so that its field is annotated with `@Stable`.  This is to allow `Optional` instances to be held in lazy constants and still provide constant folding.
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> Per Minborg has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Fix typo

Great work!

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Marked as reviewed by mcimadamore (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27605#pullrequestreview-3472270393