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

[Alan Bateman]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 16:13:54 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> My thinking was that if equalsIgnoreCase == false then the file keys cannot be equal so there is no point checking them.

The encode + decode may may not be a perfect round trip so I don't think this would hold. I think the only safe approach is to compareTo with the byte representation, if they are not equal then need to stat to get the fileKey.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27709#discussion_r2417713632