RFR: 8292818: replace 96-bit representation for field metadata with variable-sized streams [v3]

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 15:53:03 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Frederic Parain has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   SA additional caching from Chris Plummer
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> src/hotspot/share/classfile/classFileParser.cpp line 1634:
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>> 1632:       for(int i = 0; i < _temp_field_info->length(); i++) {
>> 1633:         name = _temp_field_info->adr_at(i)->name(_cp);
>> 1634:         sig = _temp_field_info->adr_at(i)->signature(_cp);
> 
> This checking for duplicates looks like a good candidate for a separate function because parse_fields is so long.  I'm adding this comment to remember to file an RFE to look into making this function shorter and factor out this code.

Filed a cleanup RFE https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8304069

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12855