bottleneck by java.lang.Class.getAnnotations()

[Alexander Knöller]

Hi there.

java.lang.Class.getAnnotations() always enters a synchronized-block, slowing down multi core machines that heavily make use of Annotations.
(in our Case we use LoadTimeWeaving in the spring-framework 3.1.2) 
We are using sun-jdk 6 which has the same performance-bottleneck.
openjdk7 and 8 show no fix so far, although it looks like it might be possible to build a kind of double-checked locking?

Has this issue ever been persued?

Special Regards
Alex Knöller