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

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 06/17/2013 03:44 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> This looks to good. I agree with Peter's point about the 2 reads in 
> getInterfaces() although it's unlikely to make a significant
> difference.

Oh, it can have the difference on non-x86 hardware and/or in optimized
code. This nit is fixed here:
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8016236/webrev.04/

I did the same testing as before: Linux x86_64/release builds and runs
jdk/test/java/lang/reflect jtreg successfully; the performance is still
there.

> If you can create the change-set then I can push this for you today.

Here:
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8016236/8016236.changeset

Although only Alan counts as official reviewer; do we need another one?

Thanks,
-Aleksey.