[hibernate-dev] Optimizing reflection optimization

[Emmanuel Bernard]

Hi,
Have you noticed a perf difference in your application with and without the patch?
I am wondering if modern VMs have catched up with what Javassist does.

On 26 mai 2010, at 18:29, Кирилл Кленский wrote:

> 1. I have noticed that
> org.hibernate.bytecode.javassist.BulkAccessorFactory.findAccessors(...) is
> searching for accessor methods in the optimized entity class only. This
> means that the methods from the superclasses are not visible during
> BulkAccessor creation unless overridden by child classes. By enhancing the
> algorithm to search down the inheritance tree we could avoid creation of
> redundant methods which increase the code verbosity a lot. In our case
> almost all the entities are inherited from the base classes having the
> common entity properties defined, so the reflection optimization does not
> work for any of them until we override the inherited methods in all the
> child classes. The implementation is trivial, but I have got a ready
> prototype if anybody is interested.