RFR: 8258652: Assert in JvmtiThreadState::cur_stack_depth() can noticeably slow down debugging single stepping

Fri Jan 8 21:51:07 UTC 2021

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 02:19:28 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This works but I'm concerned if this sets a precedent for adding expensive assertions? Do we already have similar flags?

@dholmes-ora The one expensive assert is already there. I have since removed the two additional expensive asserts for the incr() and decr() APIs. I don't know of any other similar flag.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1835