On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 19:26:53 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <cole...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> The Class.getModifiers() method is implemented as a native method in > java.lang.Class to access a field that we've calculated when creating the > mirror. The field is final after that point. The VM doesn't need it anymore, > so there's no real need for the jdk code to call into the VM to get it. This > moves the field to Java and removes the intrinsic code. I promoted the > compute_modifiers() functions to return int since that's how java.lang.Class > uses the value. It should really be an unsigned short though. > > There's a couple of JMH benchmarks added with this change. One does show > that for array classes for non-bootstrap class loader, this results in one > extra load which in a long loop of just that, is observable. I don't think > this is real life code. The other benchmarks added show no regression. > > Tested with tier1-8. > Looking at https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/23396, we might need to filter > this field too. Yes, I agree. This patch is a follow on to that one, so I'll add it to the same places when that one is merged in here. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22652#issuecomment-2631661716
