RFR (S) CR 8016236: Class.getGenericInterfaces performance improvement

[Aleksey Shipilev]

Friendly reminder for the reviewers.

On 06/10/2013 07:53 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> This is the follow-up on the issue Doug identified:
>   http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-June/017798.html
> 
> I had reworked the patch, webrev is here:
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8016236/webrev.01/

The current webrev is here:
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8016236/webrev.02/

> Notable differences from Doug's version are:
>   - handle non-generic cases as well
>   - reuse ReflectionData to cache the interfaces
>   - code style (chained ternary operators blown up)
>   - fixes the race along the way
>       http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6398355
> 
> Testing:
>   - Linux x86_64/release: build OK
>   - Linux x86_64/release: java/lang/reflect regression tests OK
>   - Microbenchmarks show whooping increase in performance, see below

Thanks,
Aleksey.