RFR: 8169880: Remove the sun.reflect.noCaches option

Aleksey Shipilev shade at redhat.com
Thu Nov 17 15:36:07 UTC 2016


On 11/17/2016 04:33 PM, Claes Redestad wrote:
> The undocumented sun.reflect.noCaches option was put in place as a
> debugging aid when caching was added to core reflection[1], with the
> intent to remove it once overly inefficient uses of reflection was
> weeded out[2]. This appears to have been forgotten and should be
> cleaned up.
> 
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8169880/webrev.01/

I did see this option used in performance tests during recent Reflection
caching work, but has no problem with removing it, as it is addable on
the spot.

Thanks,
-Aleksey



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