The follow-on issue which was filed to track the underlying issue is this: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141491
As can be seen it is an alignment problem. Brian On Nov 5, 2015, at 4:57 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 05/11/2015 04:19, Martin Buchholz wrote: >> Alright, it's a much better situation if we're not giving up on fixing the >> underlying problem. >> > I agree and view this dialing down of the optimization level as temporary > until the issue is understood.