RFR: 8154067: Avoid early use of limited privilege escalation in InnerClassLambdaMetafactory

[Alan Bateman]

On 12/04/2016 13:38, Claes Redestad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the first usage of limited doPrivileged appears to have a small 
> startup penalty (loads 8 permission-related classes and does some 
> reflection), and is arguably excessive for this particular instance. 
> Unrestricted doPrivileged allows for a small reduction of lambda init 
> cost.
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8154067/webrev.01/
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8154067
In general then we've been encouraging the use of limited doPrivileged 
where it make sense although for cases like this then it doesn't have 
much advantage. An alternative would be to just use System.getProperty 
then System.getSecurityManager() == null.

-Alan