On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:38:40 GMT, Claes Redestad <redes...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> A small optimization makes BufWriterImpl's writeU1/U2/Int/Long methods more >> C2-friendly and improves performance. > > I made an off-list suggestion along this line some time before integration. > IIRC it was a decent win back then, and with the merge store optimizations in > place it might be even more impactful now. @cl4es this is already downcasted to a byte, which is done via truncation like `& 0xFF` so I think the original `& 0xFF` is redundant. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20748#issuecomment-2317496731