8259487: Remove unused StarTask

[kimbarrett]

Please review this change which removes the StarTask class. It was
superseded by ScannerTask in JDK-8244684 and JDK-8245022, and is no longer
used.

Testing:
mach5 tier1

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Issue

• JDK-8259487: Remove unused StarTask

Reviewers

• Ioi Lam (@iklam - Reviewer)
• Thomas Schatzl (@tschatzl - Reviewer)

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$ git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/2277/head:pull/2277
$ git checkout pull/2277

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[mlbridge]

Webrevs

• 00: Full (b1b0881)

[iklam]

LGTM

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8259487: Remove unused StarTask

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At the time when this comment was updated there had been 5 new commits pushed to the master branch:

• 11a70d1: 8260426: awt debug_mem.c DMem_AllocateBlock might leak memory
• 396a496: 8260467: Move well-known classes from systemDictionary.hpp to vmClasses.hpp
• 62ffe75: Merge
• e28e111: 8260370: C2: LoopLimit node is not eliminated
• 7030d2e: 8260200: G1: Remove unnecessary update in FreeRegionList::remove_starting_at

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[tschatzl]

Looks good and trivial. Thanks.

[kimbarrett]

Thanks @iklam and @tschatzl for reviews.

[kimbarrett]

/integrate

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@kimbarrett Since your change was applied there have been 24 commits pushed to the master branch:

• 1519632: 8251462: Simplify compilation policy
• 71128cf: 8260586: Shenandoah: simplify "Concurrent Weak References" logging
• 81e9e6a: 8260461: Modernize jsr166 tck tests
• 2b166d8: 8260596: Comment cleanup in BigInteger
• 1de3c55: 8260584: Shenandoah: simplify "Concurrent Thread Roots" logging
• bbbfaa5: 8249262: Initialize InstanceKlass::_package_entry during CDS dump time
• 3aabbd7: 8260432: allocateSpaceForGP in freetypeScaler.c might leak memory
• abc4300: 8257746: Regression introduced with JDK-8250984 - memory might be null in some machines
• 13ca433: 8259628: jdk/net/ExtendedSocketOption/AsynchronousSocketChannelNAPITest.java fails intermittently
• baf46ba: 8259801: Enable XML Signature secure validation mode by default
• ... and 14 more: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/compare/c7661aed6fed08154ed6754302687361f035d120...master

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