performance issue with alignment-like checks

[John Rose]

On May 27, 2020, at 6:15 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Bitwise subfield type analysis would cover all kinds of alignment
> problems nicely, as well as a host of other use cases.
> 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8001436 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8001436>


The newer version of this bug is:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8001336

I used your benchmark to show a sketch of how that benchmark
would be analyzed by the enhanced type system.