Assorted annotation optimizations

[Joseph Darcy]

Joel,

If you haven't done so already, please file an rfe to capture Peter's 
suggestions.

Thanks,

-Joe

On 11/4/2013 7:29 AM, Joel Borggrén-Franck wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> As always, thanks for doing this!
>
> On 2 nov 2013, at 22:58, Peter Levart <peter.levart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I propose a set of straightforward optimizations of annotations in the field of minimizing garbage creation and execution performance. Here's a webrev containing the changes:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk8-tl/AnnotationOptimizations/webrev.01/
>
> Skimming this, I think most (or all) of this is good. However now is not the time to do it. This should go into 9 and 8u as soon as they are open for fixes.
>
> FWIW I have also been toying with the idea of rewriting the storage of annotations in 9. IIRC you posted a patch with a very specific map for annotations. If we go down that road we should probably do a JEP.
>
> cheers
> /Joel