RFR: 8177107: Reduce memory footprint of java.lang.reflect.Constructor/Method

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 09:58:35 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:

> As an alternative to #7667 I took a look at injecting an empty class array from the VM. Turns out we already do this for exception types - see https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/share/oops/method.cpp#L918 - and we can do similarly for the parameter types array. We still need to parse the signature for the return type, though.
> 
> I've verified by dumping and inspecting heaps that this means we are not allocating extra `Class<?>[]` on `Method` reflection.

Looks good.

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Marked as reviewed by coleenp (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8089