RFR: 5043030 (reflect) unnecessary object creation in reflection

[Andrej Golovnin]

Hi Joel,

>> I have changed the test TestMethodReflectValueOf as you suggested and I have changed the summary of both tests too. You will find the changes in the attached patch. Here is the new webrev: https://db.tt/wQBLVceA
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>> And here is the coverage report in the HTML format:
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>> https://db.tt/JTZjpnMM
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> 
> Out of curiosity, did you generate the coverage report running the jdk_lang test suite?

Yes and I used the following config for JCov:

include_list=jcov_jdk_lang.txt,field=on,abstract=on,native=on,type=all,file=$JCOV_OUT,merge=merge

where jcov_jdk_lang.txt contains the single line:

sun.reflect.*


> I think this patch is good to go. I need to file some Oracle internal requests, should take about a week, then I can sponsor this.

I am very pleased to hear that and I hope to contribute more.

Best regards,
Andrej Golovnin