Improve AnnotationLiteral for empty annotations ----------------------------------------------- Key: CDI-631 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-631 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Feature Request Reporter: Mark Struberg Fix For: 2.0 (discussion) Annotation hashCode() and equals() operations are fairly expensive as they always invoke getDeclaredMethods() even if there are no such. And getDeclaredMethods involves the SecurityManager + wrapper classes + Exception handling + + + That's horrible expensive. In OWB I improved this by introducing an own base class for dynamic annotations which do not have any members: https://github.com/apache/openwebbeans/blob/trunk/webbeans-impl/src/main/... The method returns a hardcoded String for toString(), returns hardcoded 0 as hashCode and the equals() method invokes the equals on the annotation type. We might support this improvements directly in the AnnotationLiteral class or introduce a similar 2nd class especially for empty annotations?