8173117: Compilation significantly slower after JDK-8169197
Summary: Only using recovery search when an error is inevitable.
Reviewed-by: jjg, mcimadamore

8172411: -XDnoModules must be removed
Reviewed-by: jjg

8171371: Remove redundant type-arguments from generic method calls
Reviewed-by: jjg, rfield, mchung

8181370: Convert anonymous inner classes into lambdas/method references
Reviewed-by: jjg, rfield, mchung

8168312: javac throws NPE if annotation processor is specified and module is declared in a file named arbitrarily
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8152911: javac assertion error when compiling overlay sources
Summary: Avoid creating ModuleSymbols with unspecified name, to avoid conflicts with predefined ModuleSymbol for the java.base module.
Reviewed-by: jjg

8160454: JSR269 jigsaw update: javax.lang.model.element.ModuleElement.getDirectives() causes NPE on unnamed modules
Reviewed-by: jjg

8161501: JSR269 jigsaw update: javax.lang.model.element.ModuleElement.getEnclosedElements() on unnamed module with unnamed package
Reviewed-by: jjg

8154283: Check for clash between package and class not working when package in a different module
Summary: Looking for any visible package when checking for package-class clash
Reviewed-by: jjg

Merge

8149644: Integrate VarHandles
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, forax

8142968: Module System implementation
Summary: Initial integration of JEP 200, JEP 260, JEP 261, and JEP 282
Reviewed-by: jjg, jlahoda, vromero, mcimadamore, bpatel, ksrini, darcy, anazarov, dfuchs
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, jan.lahoda@oracle.com, vicente.romero@oracle.com, andreas.lundblad@oracle.com, andrey.x.nazarov@oracle.com, chris.hegarty@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, kumar.x.srinivasan@oracle.com, sundararajan.athijegannathan@oracle.com

8148483: JEP 280: Indify String Concatenation
Reviewed-by: psandoz, mcimadamore, igerasim, forax, plevart, vlivanov, ihse
Contributed-by: Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>, Remi Forax <forax@univ-mlv.fr>, Peter Levart <peter.levart@gmail.com>

8078600: Infinite loop when compiling annotations with -XDcompletionDeps
Summary: Added Completer::isTerminal and added NULL_COMPLETER.
Reviewed-by: jlahoda, mcimadamore

8073432: Object.getClass() throws stackless NPE, due to C2 intrinsic
Summary: Javac should generate NPE checks using Objects.requireNonNull if -target >= 7
Reviewed-by: jlahoda
Contributed-by: aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com

8073645: Add lambda-based lazy eval versions of Assert.check methods
Summary: Enhance Assert so that lazy string computation can occurr where needed; enhance static roding rule checkers to make sure the right version of the method is called.
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8071241: Investigate alternate strategy for type-checking operators
Summary: Separat operator lookup logic from overload resolution.
Reviewed-by: jjg, jlahoda, sadayapalam

8054457: Refactor Symbol kinds from small ints to an enum
Summary: Replace bitmap logic in symbol.kind and pkind with an enum-based API
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, jjg

8056061: Mark implementations of public interfaces with an annotation
Summary: Adding @DefinedBy annotation to mark methods that implement public API methods; annotating the methods; adding a coding rules analyzer to enforce all such methods are annotated.
Reviewed-by: jjg, mcimadamore, jfranck
Contributed-by: jan.lahoda@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com

8054834: Modular Source Code
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, ihse, mduigou
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, chris.hegarty@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, magnus.ihse.bursie@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com