[core-libs] RFR (L): 8010319: Implementation of JEP 181: Nest-Based Access Control

[mandy chung]

On 5/21/18 9:39 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>> On May 20, 2018, at 11:32 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 3984     public Class<?>[] getNestMembers() {
>>> I still think not removing dups is a mistake as it could be a source of subtle bugs. But i doubt at this point i can persuade you or others to change it :-)
>> Unlikely. :) Again well-formed programs just won't encounter this and it would penalize all well-formed programs.
>>
> Although those well-formed programs may need to check for dups themselves because they don’t want to rely in implementation details (and they are not aware of the probability of implementations deviating).
>
> Here’s a thought: did you consider caching the nest members in the ReflectionData class? that may be worth doing regardless of dups.

I think that is a good idea and no change to the VM performance in 
return the nest members.  I would cache the nest host in ReflectionData 
as well if it caches the nest members.

Mandy