Sorry folks--the webrev url: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/6565585/0/webrev/
Mike On Mar 17 2011, at 15:07 , Mike Duigou wrote: > Method.invoke(), Contrstuctor.newInstance() and Field.getFieldAccessor() all > have a needless critical section, causing large slowdowns. This patch a > replaces the synchronizations by volatile references. Finally, the changes > remove a doubled reference to another volatile variable. This also > simplifies the generated code by commoning up the corresponding load > instruction used in the fast execution path. > > Speedups from this change are uniformly 2x or better. > > The proposed improvement and patch was originated by John Rose. > > Thanks, > > Mike
