On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:18:43 GMT, Quan Anh Mai <qa...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> This patch introduces `JitCompiler::isConstantExpression` which can be used 
>> to statically determine whether an expression has been constant-folded by 
>> the Jit compiler, leading to more constant-folding opportunities. For 
>> example, it can be used in `MemorySessionImpl::checkValidStateRaw` to 
>> eliminate the lifetime check on global sessions without imposing additional 
>> branches on other non-global sessions. This is inspired by 
>> `std::is_constant_evaluated` in C++.
>> 
>> Please kindly give your opinion as well as your reviews, thanks very much.
>
> Quan Anh Mai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   add more overloads

Would it be possible to list further examples where this might be used? Asking 
because I'm wondering about the usability and maintainability of if-then-else 
code.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17527#issuecomment-1906362127

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