On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 23:46:48 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> The main downside of throwing an exception is that exception stack trace > filling is very costly. If this API is used to process unsanitized strings > like users inputs, throwing might impose performance costs for handling bad > inputs. For discussion purposes, pushed an update where the new method returns null on a non-primitive name. To approximate normal name lookup is a Java source file (without imports), could be done with code like: Objects.requireNonNullElse(Class.forPrimitiveName(name), name -> Class.forName(name)) ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14743#issuecomment-1629694729
