RFR: JDK-6361826: (reflect) provide method for mapping strings to class object for primitive types

[Chen Liang]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:57:54 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Going over some old issues and found this RFE, posting without any tests or a CSR first to get some feedback on the overall API.

The main downside of throwing an exception is that exception stack trace filling is very costly. If this API is used to process unsanitized strings like users inputs, throwing might impose performance costs for handling bad inputs.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14743#issuecomment-1615280806