On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:31:28 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. > > Coleen Phillimore has updated the pull request incrementally with one > additional commit since the last revision: > > Make compute_modifiers return u2. Thank you Vladimir for encouraging me to continue this change. I removed the ??? and hid the modifiers field for reflection as suggested in this PR. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22652#issuecomment-2641339406
