Use JDK immutable lists to reduce arity of List invokeInterface

[mkouba]

This commit was cherry-picked from #42909.

CC @franz1981

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[mkouba]

I will attach some benchmark numbers in the afternoon.

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Flaky tests - Develocity

⚙️ JVM Tests - JDK 17

📦 extensions/smallrye-reactive-messaging/deployment

✖ io.quarkus.smallrye.reactivemessaging.hotreload.ConnectorChangeTest.testUpdatingConnector - History

• Expecting actual: ["-4","-5","-6","-7","-8","-9","-10","-11"] to start with: ["-3", "-4", "-5", "-6"] - java.lang.AssertionError

java.lang.AssertionError: 

Expecting actual:
  ["-4","-5","-6","-7","-8","-9","-10","-11"]
to start with:
  ["-3", "-4", "-5", "-6"]

	at io.quarkus.smallrye.reactivemessaging.hotreload.ConnectorChangeTest.testUpdatingConnector(ConnectorChangeTest.java:36)

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⚙️ JVM Tests - JDK 21

📦 core/deployment

✖ io.quarkus.deployment.dev.FileSystemWatcherTestCase.testFileSystemWatcher - History

• expected: not <null> - org.opentest4j.AssertionFailedError

org.opentest4j.AssertionFailedError: expected: not <null>
	at org.junit.jupiter.api.AssertionFailureBuilder.build(AssertionFailureBuilder.java:152)
	at org.junit.jupiter.api.AssertionFailureBuilder.buildAndThrow(AssertionFailureBuilder.java:132)
	at org.junit.jupiter.api.AssertNotNull.failNull(AssertNotNull.java:49)
	at org.junit.jupiter.api.AssertNotNull.assertNotNull(AssertNotNull.java:35)
	at org.junit.jupiter.api.AssertNotNull.assertNotNull(AssertNotNull.java:30)
	at org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull(Assertions.java:304)
	at io.quarkus.deployment.dev.FileSystemWatcherTestCase.consumeEvents(FileSystemWatcherTestCase.java:169)

[mkouba]

Here are the results (on a dedicated but rather slow box :-). What's interesting that it does not improve all benchmarks. However, I ran it several times and the improvement for Loop15/Loop50 was 7-9%/9-11%. So definitely 👍 from my POV.

RESULTS SUMMARY          |3.8.6                    |3.14.1                   |999-SNAPSHOT             
=========================|Score    |Error  |Diff   |Score    |Error  |Diff   |Score    |Error  |Diff   
-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------
HelloParser              |      664|     29|       |      664|     35|     0%|      656|     43|    -1%
HelloSimple              |    25628|   1083|       |    25154|   1116|    -2%|    25217|    497|     0%
IfComplex                |     5882|    303|       |     5778|    437|    -2%|     5653|    293|    -2%
IfSimple                 |     7855|    428|       |     7887|    495|     0%|     7956|    373|    +1%
IncludeSimple            |    21377|    703|       |    21011|    740|    -2%|    20826|    764|    -1%
JavaBeanValueResolver    |    31875|   1173|       |    31043|   1976|    -3%|    31572|   1481|    +2%
LetComplex               |     5949|    250|       |     5881|    154|    -1%|     5739|    260|    -2%
LetSimple                |    16523|    929|       |    16818|    666|    +2%|    16831|    734|     0%
Loop15                   |    33319|   1573|       |    34050|   1080|    +2%|    36397|   1983|    +7%
Loop50                   |    10375|    619|       |    10458|    445|    +1%|    11500|    585|   +10%
NameResolver             |    18514|    623|       |    18621|    592|    +1%|    18323|    783|    -2%
When                     |     9022|    471|       |     9122|    448|    +1%|     8764|    441|    -4%