RFC (round 1), JEP draft: Low-level Object layout introspection methods

[Peter Levart]

On 8/11/20 12:22 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> ...and it is not clear what is your position on:
>      public static long fieldSizeOf(Field field);

Perhaps an alternative. Each Field has a type (represented by: Class<?> 
Field.getType()). So adding a method to Class would also be possible. Like:

long getFieldSizeInBytes();  // how many bytes does value of that type 
take when placed on heap (for identity classes, this would be the number 
of bytes a pointer takes - compressed taken into account, for inline 
classes this would give the footprint of the fields of that inline class 
with all gaps included).

Alternatively the API could be specified somewhere else as a static method:

long getSizeInBytesForFieldOfType(Class<?> fieldType);


This assumes that fields of the same type always take the same size in 
the same VM.


Regards, Peter