In #16006 using `StringConcatFactory` seem to induce a run-to-run variance. One idea to reduce this is to generate expression trees with fewer branches by looking up and using the prefix-less `prepend` methods directly for cases where constant is null/empty so that the prefixed prepender will always deal with a non-null prefix constant.
------------- Commit messages: - Naming consistency: noPrefixPrepender - FormatItem should call prepend(long, byte[], String) - Merge branch 'master' into scf_less_branches - Rename NULL to NO_PREFIX to better describe what these are for - Only generate prepend with prefix on non-null constants to avoid branch misses and JIT speculation issues Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16244/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=16244&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8318457 Stats: 36 lines in 3 files changed: 14 ins; 9 del; 13 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16244.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/16244/head:pull/16244 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16244
