Reflection vs MethodHandle performance in Oracle JDK 7u7

[John Rose]

On Oct 15, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Ashwin Jayaprakash wrote:

> Remi, you were right. Disabling tiered compilation sped things up a bit. But, everything except MethodHandles is slower in JDK 8 than in JDK 7u7. Especially static and virtual calls (!!)

Two hypotheses come to mind:
* static and virtual calls are slower in 8
* the comparison method is flawed

Guess which one I bet is true?

I added a couple more links to this page, plus a note about TieredCompilation:
  https://wikis.oracle.com/display/HotSpotInternals/MicroBenchmarks

— John
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