RFR: JDK-8206007: nsk/jdb/exclude001 test is taking a long time on some builds

[Chris Plummer]

Ok. Still seems like an awful lot of methods being invoked, but is nice 
improvement.

Chris

On 7/6/18 5:55 AM, Gary Adams wrote:
> This change reduces the test by ~180K method observations (29%).
> It also depends on less complicated methods. e.g. VirtualMachineManager
> deals with more class and service loaders
>
> On 7/5/18, 5:28 PM, Chris Plummer wrote:
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> The changes look good. How much is the reducing execution by?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 7/5/18 7:48 AM, Gary Adams wrote:
>>> A simple test run using "exclude none" shows 625K methods are being 
>>> observed.
>>> The bulk of those methods were due to the last class accessed in the 
>>> test - VirtualMachineManager.
>>>
>>> It's not important that this particular call is used. The test is 
>>> simply demonstrating that
>>> filters work for other packages than java and javax.
>>>
>>> This proposed fix uses a simpler lookup for GregorianCalendar.
>>>
>>>   Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8206007
>>>   Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gadams/8206007/webrev.00/
>>
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