So, to see how the patch is holding up against trunk I experimented with rebasing on top of a0acd82 and running tests.
What I found is that running with
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD OMR_JIT_OPTIONS=-Xjit:count=0 make test
I saw huge slowdowns before we even got to executing the actual test files while running the extension makes. I'm not sure what's going on there, but every time you type 'make test' it's regenerating a bunch of things related to the exts and causing a multi-minute delay before make test even gets started.