RFR: 8368633: (fs) Path.toRealPath(NOFOLLOW_LINKS) very slow on macOS

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 23:59:53 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Try to avoid checking file keys for all entries by first attempting `Path.compareTo` and `String.equalsIgnoreCase`.

For the test case included in the issue description, the proposed change is five times faster than the existing implementation.

The test is only changed to direct print statements to `stderr` so as to interleave with JUnit output.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27709#issuecomment-3383597575