It may be possible to do that, by doing a reflective check on that method and calling that method reflectively (or via method handles, since it is public). The code might be a bit complex, but I'll give it a go.
-Paul On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 3:22 AM Robert Munteanu <romb...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Sat, 2021-12-04 at 21:38 -0600, Paul Bjorkstrand wrote: > > I added in using MethodHandles in the tests, just to show the > > difference. > > When Sling stops supporting Java 8, we can move to MethodHandle which > > has > > significantly better performance characteristics. Unfortunately, we > > can't > > make that move until we are on at least Java 9, so that we can use > > MethodHandles.privateLookupIn(..) [2]. > > Thanks for the comprehensive tests. Would it be possible to try > MethodHandles and fall back to reflection is they're not available? > > Thanks, > Robert >