Hey,
I'm new to the OpenJDK and not sure (yet) how the procedure especially for new bugs/enhancement is. So I apologise upfront if I made any mistakes. I'm working mostly with the Spring-Framework/Spring-Boot in my current projects. In these frameworks a lot of dynamic proxying can happen. Recently, I noticed that the JDK in versions 8 up to the current snapshots produces some allocations coming from sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationInvocationHandler.invoke() we could avoid in the majority of cases. Only the check for equality needs the actual parameter types - all other cases only need the parameter count which JDK 8 luckily provides with Method.getParameterCount(). What about changing the current behaviour to something like my attached proposal? I'd be happy if someone is willing to sponsor this change. Again - if I made any mistakes here, please let me know for the next time. Cheers, Christoph Dreis ================================ Reduce allocations in sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationInvocationHandler.invoke() diff -r ba70dcd8de76 -r 86bbc5442c1d src/java.base/share/classes/sun/reflect/annotation/AnnotationInvocationHandl er.java --- a/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/reflect/annotation/AnnotationInvocationHan dler.java Fri Nov 11 13:11:27 2016 +0000 +++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/reflect/annotation/AnnotationInvocationHan dler.java Mon Nov 14 19:04:33 2016 +0100 @@ -57,13 +57,13 @@ public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method, Object[] args) { String member = method.getName(); - Class<?>[] paramTypes = method.getParameterTypes(); + int parameterCount = method.getParameterCount(); // Handle Object and Annotation methods - if (member.equals("equals") && paramTypes.length == 1 && - paramTypes[0] == Object.class) + if (member.equals("equals") && parameterCount == 1 && + method.getParameterTypes()[0] == Object.class) return equalsImpl(proxy, args[0]); - if (paramTypes.length != 0) + if (parameterCount != 0) throw new AssertionError("Too many parameters for an annotation method"); switch(member) {