RFR: 8180763: Improve inlining of Symbol::equals(char*, int) into CompactHashtable

[Ioi Lam]

Hi Claes,

This looks good to me. Thanks!

- Ioi

On 5/22/17 8:03 AM, Claes Redestad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it appears that CompactHashtable suffers slightly from failure to 
> completely
> inline Symbol::equals, and this trivial patch to move the 
> implementation into
> the header helps to reduce instructions spent in Symbol::lookup when 
> CDS is
> enabled by 7.5%:
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180763
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8180763/hotspot.00/
>
> Thanks!
>
> /Claes