RFR: 8198540: Dynalink leaks memory when generating type converters [v7]

[Peter Levart]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 17:01:31 GMT, Attila Szegedi <attila at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Yes, the pre-initialized fields to Map.of() are safe regardless of whether they are volatile or not (so I would keep them non-volatile to optimize fast-path). Because the BiClassValues instance is published safely to other threads via ClassValue and because you never assign null to the fields later on.
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> Alright, I made a new hybrid of non-volatile fields and never null fields. Hopefully we're getting to the ideal. Again, I really appreciate all the advice and direction you provided here.

Hello Attila,
This looks good to me. Just a question: How frequent are situations where the two classloaders are unrelated?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1918