RFR: 8291555: Implement alternative fast-locking scheme [v26]

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 06:31:42 GMT, Roman Kennke <rkennke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > > Agreed. But I don't think "Thin locks" is an option as that was specifically an IBM locking implementation. Historically Hotspot's locking mechanism has internally been referred to as stack-locks, so I would suggest UseNewStackLocks
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> > They don't use the stack anymore; would this not be us using a wrong name just for history's sake?
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> Well, it's still got the lock-stacks. :-D

Yes, but we have variables like "is_stack_locked" etc, without an "old" qualifier. Idk, up to you. Better than UseFastLocking I guess.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10907