Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7143353 Review thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2012-May/003742.html JDK8 changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/5ec5588c733d