On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:49:05 GMT, Mandy Chung <mch...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java line 426:
>>
>>> 424: /**
>>> 425: * Returns the {@code Class} object associated with the class or
>>> 426: * interface with the given string name, using the given class
>>> loader.
>>
>> Should we update the summary to `... associated with the class or interface
>> or array with the given string name...`
>
> I want to keep it as is. The first paragraph talks about a class or
> interface and the other paragraphs talk about array classes, primitive types
> and hidden classes.
Indeed, this API is more suited to classes and intefaces discovery, and array
types should be obtained via `arrayType()`, which is somehow faster than a
direct forName (as seen in my ClassDesc.resolveConstantDesc benchmarks)
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14528#discussion_r1238821443
