RFR: 8230662: Remove dead code from MethodTypeForm

Claes Redestad claes.redestad at oracle.com
Mon Sep 9 14:14:11 UTC 2019



On 2019-09-09 13:56, Claes Redestad wrote:
> On 2019-09-09 12:31, Peter Levart wrote:
>> Hi Claes,>> So I think that these @Stable annotations do no good here. Either they 
>> are ineffective in cases where MethodTypeForm instances are not 
>> constant-folded, or they render caching ineffective when 
>> MethodTypeForm instances are constant-folder and SoftReference(s) are 
>> cleared. In either case it would be better without them.
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> You might be right, and this should be examined.

I agree the @Stable should be removed here, and filed a bug to that 
effect: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8230768

/Claes


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