performance surprise with Object.hashCode()

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 05/13/2013 11:28 PM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
> Interesting, I didn't know about the DisableIntrinsic flag.  I think the
> o_i takes a hit because the hashCode there is so trivial that the guards
> themselves cost more in pure overhead.

I have no idea how can you reach this conclusion. The disassembly shows
structurally the same code for o_o and o_i, but o_o takes the fast-path
there, and o_i needs to resort to slow path. The checks are happening
anyway in both cases.

-Aleksey.