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

[Alan Bateman]

On 10/06/2013 21:57, Peter Levart wrote:
> :
>
> I should note that ReflectionData is invalidated when the class is 
> redefined. I don't know if generic signature is one of those things 
> that can change with class redefinition, but invalidation is just one 
> purpose of ReflectionData and the other is caching (via 
> SoftReference), so generic signature can be added to it for that 
> purpose. If 'genericSignature' is cached on ReflectionData then it 
> would be consistent to also cache the derived 'genericInfo', what do 
> you think?
>
A redefine or retransform is allowed to change attributes so while 
signatures/modifier/hierarchy can't change then the Signature attribute 
might. So I think it's right in the current webrev (but good to think 
about such things).

-Alan.