@Steve the disassembledStateText field which was introduced in HHH-11097 Closed seems to make the problem worse, as in the original issue the String would only be created by that occasional configuration mistake of Ehcache, but now we're creating the String all the time. Also the field should be final, which makes the code much more complex.

I see in the conversation on HHH-11097 Closed that you floated the idea to just drop the toString(). I like that.. may I do that and remove all the accidental complexity caused by this String creation?