[PATCH] 4851444: Exposing sun.reflect.Reflection#getCallerClass as a public API in Java 8

[Mandy Chung]

On 9/20/2013 2:46 PM, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
>> Exposing a StackStream API means that you need to eagerly walk the stack
>> and copy the stack frames to it before it returns.  I agree it is a much
>> more flexible API.  On the other hand, stack walking is sequential and
>> ordered and a stack stream will be traversed as in an iterator.
> to underline it: Stream does not require you to eagerly read all values 


Yes.  What I was trying to explain is that if we want to return a Stream 
instance to the caller and traverse later, it means that it has to take 
a snapshot of the stack trace of the current thread. The stack trace 
data has to be stored in whatever data structure like how Throwable is 
currently implemented.

I think referring this as a "stream" cause the confusion - will revisit 
this.

Mandy