RFR (XS): 8162815: unnecessary object creation in reflection

[Paul Sandoz]

> On 4 Aug 2016, at 12:02, Claes Redestad <claes.redestad at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to sponsor this bug fix provided by Tomáš Hůrka to remove a new and dup left behind in generated accessor methods after moving these to use appropriate valueOf methods for boxing primitive returns.
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8162815
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8162815/webrev.01/
> 
> This appears to have a very limited effect to peak performance in HotSpot (interpreter and C1 level code seem to hurt a bit), but should be fixed for correctness.
> 

+1

Paul.