7127687: MethodType leaks memory due to interning

[John Rose]

On Mar 28, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
> I think you can use diamond generic inference when declaring the weak intern set
> 
Done; thanks.
> Also any reason you didn't use WeakHashMap directly with dummy value to simulate the set? Or wrap the WeakHashMap and synchronize the accessors to it
> 
That's been answered already on this thread.

Building collection-like types from reusable components in Java is not a fully-solved problem, and the symptom is lots of code copying.  Last time I checked, there wasn't even a reusable Map.Entry abstract class.

— John