After JDK-8195097 in stringTable::intern the pre-insert lookup is done using a new String oop rather than the jchar* + len, which adds overhead in places like java_lang_StackTraceElement::fill_in - see https://stackoverflow.com/a/54015664/2397895
The following naive patch speeds up microbenchmarks throwing and consuming stack traces by 1.33x on my machine:
diff -r d3e199e30cfb src/hotspot/share/classfile/stringTable.cpp
--- a/src/hotspot/share/classfile/stringTable.cpp Thu Jan 03 02:26:42 2019 +0100
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/classfile/stringTable.cpp Thu Jan 03 10:29:24 2019 +0100
@@ -334,6 +334,10 @@
if (StringTable::_alt_hash) {
hash = hash_string(name, len, true);
}
+ found_string = StringTable::the_table()->do_lookup(name, len, hash);
+ if (found_string != NULL) {
+ return found_string;
+ }
return StringTable::the_table()->do_intern(string_or_null_h, name, len,
hash, CHECK_NULL);
}