This is another pull request to replace https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/10025 change which was blocked as not acceptable (see https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/10025#pullrequestreview-1228216330)
The objections to change #10025 were: - specialized algorithm for given data complicates things, makes it hard to learn, test and support - algorithm is changed for DebugInfo, and the benefit is only for one type of data - statistics of the debug info data can (will) change, breaking the optimization The suggestion was: - don't change the core algorithm, but add one on top or underneath the existing one, or reuse off-the-shelf zero-reduction schemes such as Cap'n Proto With this change I propose a different approach. Instead of bit coding, the sequence of zeros in a data stream is encoded with a special character that normally never appears in Unsinged5 encoding, followed by a byte containing a number of zeros. In this way the updated algorithm is a pure extension of the existing encoding algorithm: data encoded without the zero-reduction trick is unpacked in the same way as before. Currently there are several datasets affected by this change: Dependencies info, OopMap info, LineNumber info, Debug info. Only Debug info has a large number of zeros and gets a significant benefit. I experimented with the Cap'n Proto and lz4 algorithms on DebugInfo. The Unsinged5 algorithm has a better compression rate than these. DebugInfo data size is reduced by ~20% (actually, 10-30%, depending on the application). Total nmethod size reduction is ~3%. Performance impact: Renaisance and DaCapo benchmarks do not show any difference. ------------- Commit messages: - 8293170: Improve encoding of the debuginfo nmethod section Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12387/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=12387&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8293170 Stats: 67 lines in 3 files changed: 63 ins; 0 del; 4 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12387.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/12387/head:pull/12387 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12387
