[lworld] RFR: 8354068: [lworld] Fold strict final fields more aggressively [v2]

[Tobias Hartmann]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 01:12:10 GMT, Quan Anh Mai <qamai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I also wonder if the other usages of `is_ptr_to_boxed_value()` in the code could need some update.
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> That's right, I have added a case when valhalla is not enabled to catch `is_ptr_to_boxed_value` then.

But what I mean is that before your changes, we also executed this code if `t_oop->is_ptr_to_boxed_value()` was true but now we bail out. And if EnableValhalla is false, and primitive boxes are not value classes, we would therefore not optimize loads from those boxes anymore, right?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1424#discussion_r2058472106