Hi again, This is a formal pre-integration review thread for JEP 280 ("Indify String Concatenation") integration: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/280
The JEP is Targeted, the CCC is approved, the code reviews and pre-integration checks are clean. Code changes are happening simultaneously in four components: a) (M) javac changes that emit indy: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8085796/webrev.langtools.05/ b) (L) JDK changes with StringConcatFactory and friends, plus fixing the regression tests that do not expect additional indys: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8085796/webrev.jdk.08/ c) (XS) Build changes that force emitting the "legacy" inline StringBuilder concat in a few cases (e.g. when pre-JDK 9 bytecode is expected): http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8085796/webrev.root.00/ d) (XS) HotSpot changes that fix a GC regression test that now allocates some metaspace from within the test methods having a string concatenation: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8085796/webrev.hs.00/ These changes were already reviewed by multiple people, and so I would like to keep the comments only for serious breaking issues at this point. (Note that this thread cross-posts over several mailing lists: bike-shedding discussion would get multiplied a lot!) Formal acknowledgements from Reviewers would be appreciated. Pending no show-stopper comments, I'd like to push this through jdk9/dev in 24 hours. Thanks, -Aleksey