-XX:Inline ignored for system classes?

[Peter Veentjer]

Thanks for your answers Andrew. The information you provide is highly
appreciated.

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> Actually, no, you could safepoint every thread and forcibly deoptimize
> any methods you found which were referring to the class in question.
> Sorry.  But that's not a lightweight action at all, and in many cases
> it would be excessive.
>

Loading a new class that requires code deoptimization is not any different,
or is it?

Ideally this doesn't happen to often and in case of it not happening at all
(
so no reflection, no override violations) there is no price to pay.

My understanding is correct that the only reason for this typeguard is the
existence of reflection?




>
> Andrew.
>
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