On 01/11/2012 13:17, Alexander Knöller wrote:
Hi there.

java.lang.Class.getAnnotations() always enters a synchronized-block, slowing 
down multi core machines that heavily make use of Annotations.
(in our Case we use LoadTimeWeaving in the spring-framework 3.1.2)
We are using sun-jdk 6 which has the same performance-bottleneck.
openjdk7 and 8 show no fix so far, although it looks like it might be possible 
to build a kind of double-checked locking?

Has this issue ever been persued?

Special Regards
Alex Knöller

If you have a proposal then I suggest bringing it to core-libs-dev for discussion. In addition to contention there are other issues that need attention there too, particularly the potential to deadlock and the overhead per Class when annotations aren't used. There's definitely some useful work that could be done there.

-Alan.

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