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  2. JDK-8318538

Add a way to obtain a strided var handle from a layout

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      When dealing with variable-length arrays, it is often useful to derive a var handle from a layout, and have the var handle accept a long coordinate - the logical index of the element at which access should occur.

      Such a method used to exist - namely ValueLayout::arrayElementVarHandle, but it was dropped because (a) it wasn't general enough and (b) the more general version could be obtained via the combinator methods in the `MethodHandles` class.

      However, accessing variable-length array is a common enough operation that deserves some dedicated API sugar.

            mcimadamore Maurizio Cimadamore
            mcimadamore Maurizio Cimadamore
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