RFR: 8347396: Efficient TypeFunc creations [v2]

[Kim Barrett]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:42:04 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarrett at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Harshit470250 has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains five commits:
>> 
>>  - Merge master
>>  - update make_barrier_type
>>  - Merge branch 'openjdk:master' into new_pr
>>  - Merge branch 'openjdk:master' into new_pr
>>  - My chages
>
>> I have put guard on the shenandoah gc specific part of the code.
> 
> It seems weird to me that a big pile of shenandoah-specific code is being
> moved into this otherwise GC-agnostic place.

> @kimbarrett Do you want to take a look?

I don't have anything further to add. I've just been commenting in passing,
without intending to do a careful review of this change to unfamiliar to me
code.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27279#issuecomment-3881581307