A question about bytecodes

[Florian Weimer]

* John Rose:

> The only way to tell for certain whether the optimizer has performed
> escape analysis (or any other desired optimization) is to examine the
> assembly code.  See:
>   http://wikis.sun.com/display/HotSpotInternals/PrintAssembly

Is there a reason why PrintOptoAssembly appears to be deprecated?
Doesn't it contain additional type information which might be useful
for debugging purposes (or just figuring out what's going on)?