Hi, Just as idea: Why not implement Cloneable for that purpose? Adding new methods does not look like a good idea.
----- Uwe Schindler uschind...@apache.org ASF Member, Apache Lucene PMC / Committer Bremen, Germany http://lucene.apache.org/ > -----Original Message----- > From: core-libs-dev [mailto:core-libs-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] On > Behalf Of Kasper Nielsen > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 12:02 PM > To: core-libs-dev > Subject: java.lang.reflect.Method.copyOf > > Hi, > > I was wondering if there is any reason for Method.copyOf (and friends) > being package private. > > I'm trying to make a copy of a large number of Method objects in some > performance sensitive code to avoid sharing the isAccessible flag. > > And while this is fairly fast. > > Class<?> declaringClass = method.getDeclaringClass(); try { > return declaringClass.getDeclaredMethod(method.getName(), > method.getParameterTypes()); > } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) { > throw new RuntimeException("This should never happen", e); } > > I would to like to avoid the performance penalty if possible. > > - Kasper
