On Mon, 18 May 2026 09:22:36 GMT, Tobias Hartmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> This patch re-enables the `EliminateAutoBox` functionality when > `--enable-preview` is set, i.e. when the primitive boxes are value classes. > `EliminateAutoBox` has multiple effects, including an impact on inlining > decisions but its main goal is to avoid boxing via `Integer.valueOf(int)` etc > by replacing that call. I added support for scalarized returns from that > method and also added support for removing unboxing via `Integer.intValue` > etc. > > With this fix, I'm seeing various improvements: > > <img width="570" height="513" alt="Screenshot from 2026-06-02 11-08-53" > src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7c62b35b-a8ea-44ce-aa5c-d6a66f113973"; > /> > > (The regressions are not significant and due to high variance of the > benchmark) > > There's more we could do here but I already spent way too much time on this, > so I'll defer follow-up work to > [JDK-8385809](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8385809). > > Thanks, > Tobias > > --------- > - [x] I confirm that I make this contribution in accordance with the [OpenJDK > Interim AI Policy](https://openjdk.org/legal/ai). This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: 879523a8 Author: Tobias Hartmann <[email protected]> URL: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/commit/879523a853d1ca522f599813c4fbf67aee5df05a Stats: 500 lines in 9 files changed: 471 ins; 12 del; 17 mod 8328675: [lworld] Re-enable EliminateAutoBox Reviewed-by: mchevalier ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2446
