RFR (S) 8073479: Replace obj.getClass hacks with Objects.requireNonNull

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 02/20/2015 04:15 PM, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
>> So we hope for Objects.requireNonNull to be inlined most of the times.
>> It would be nice if @ForceInline annotation was accessible outside
>> java.lang.invoke package, so methods like requireNonNull could benefit
>> from it too. With modules, such platform annotations could be made
>> public and put into a package (java.lang.internal) that is not exported
>> to the world.
> I don't think @ForceInline is the right solution here.
> I'd be happy to get rid of it in java.lang.invoke code as well :-)

Vladimir,

Can you take a look if java.lang.invoke.* changes look good for you?
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8073479/webrev.00/

Thanks,
-Aleksey.