On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:01:34 GMT, David Beaumont <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Summary: Add two new methods to ImageReader to make SystemModuleReader more 
>> performant.
>> 
>> Analysis of benchmarks shows that when the vast majority of resources 
>> (~11,000 in the Perfstartup-SwingSet-G1 benchmark) tested for in 
>> SystemModuleReader do NOT exist, performance is degraded compared to this 
>> code prior to the refactoring in JDK-8360037.
>> 
>> The current refactoring of ImageReader has everything going through a single 
>> "findNode()" method for simplest possible encapsulation, but while this is 
>> functionally correct, it's not tuned for testing for the non-existence of 
>> resources.
>> 
>> In particular:
>> 1. SystemModuleReader only requests resources (i.e. things in the jimage 
>> file with paths *not* starting /modules/ or /packages/). This means 
>> findNode() does two look-ups for the resource, the first of which will 
>> always fail.
>> 2. The containsResource() logic doesn't need to create and cache nodes in 
>> ImageReader, it can just check for the presence of an ImageLocation 
>> corresponding to a resource.
>> 
>> Thus two new methods are added to resolve these cases:
>> * findResourceNode(module, path)
>> * containsResource(module, path)
>> 
>> Their API takes module and path separately so as to not be confusable with 
>> findNode(nodename).
>> 
>> However care must be taken to prevent these methods being fooled into 
>> returning non-resource entries (this was possible before the refactoring by 
>> using module names like "modules" or "packages") so new tests have been 
>> added.
>
> David Beaumont has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Update tests.

Marked as reviewed by alanb (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27203#pullrequestreview-3230269897

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