On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 22:17:10 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> When core reflection was migrated to be implemented by Method Handles, 
> somehow, the method handles are not used for native methods, which are 
> generally linkable by method handles.  This causes significant performance 
> regressions when reflecting native methods, even if their overrides may be 
> non-native methods.  This is evident in `Object.clone` and `Object.hashCode` 
> as shown in the original report.
> 
> I believe the blanket restriction previously placed on the native methods was 
> because of signature polymorphic methods ([JLS 
> 15.12.3](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se23/html/jls-15.html#jls-15.12.3),
>  [JVMS 
> 2.9.3](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se23/html/jvms-2.html#jvms-2.9.3))
>  for MethodHandle and VarHandle; method handles do not link to the backing 
> implementation that throws UOE while core reflection is required to do so.  I 
> have narrowed the restrictions to be specifically against these methods.
> 
> Additionally, I cleaned up another check for invalid varargs flag.  Together, 
> I clarified the scenarios where native method accessors are used - all to 
> bypass restrictions of java.lang.invoke.
> 
> Testing: tier 1-5 green

src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/reflect/MethodHandleAccessorFactory.java
 line 430:

> 428:         // Single parameter of declared type Object[]
> 429:         Class<?>[] parameters = 
> reflectionFactory.getExecutableSharedParameterTypes(method);
> 430:         return parameters.length == 1 && parameters[0] == Object[].class;

Would it be possible to check for the `PolymorphicSignature` annotation instead?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22169#discussion_r1848647321

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