hsyuan commented on a change in pull request #1875: [CALCITE-3873] Use global 
caching for ReflectiveVisitDispatcher implementation
URL: https://github.com/apache/calcite/pull/1875#discussion_r406600680
 
 

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core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/util/ReflectiveVisitDispatcherImpl.java
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+package org.apache.calcite.util;
+
+import org.apache.calcite.config.CalciteSystemProperty;
+
+import com.google.common.cache.Cache;
+import com.google.common.cache.CacheBuilder;
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Looking up methods relating to reflective visitation. Caching reflect
+ * method globally, every instance of the class shares the global cache to
+ * mitigate java reflection invocation overhead.
+ *
+ * @param <E> Argument type
+ * @param <R> Return type
+ */
+public class ReflectiveVisitDispatcherImpl<R extends ReflectiveVisitor, E>
+    implements ReflectiveVisitDispatcher<R, E> {
+
+  /**
+   * Global singleton cache with limited size used to cache methods. Every 
instance
+   * of the class will share this cache to mitigate java reflection invocation
+   * overhead when looking up methods.
+   * <p>Note that there should be multiple ways to implement caching, for 
example,
+   * <p>1) Passing <em>Cache</em> between objects and hopefully using Java's
+   * <em>RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization)</em> like try-finally to
+   * garbage collect.
+   * <p>2) Using <code>ThreadLocal</code> to store cache per thread.
+   * <p>3) Using global cache.
+   * <p>Solution 1) and 2) could introduce complexity to the main course and 
it only
+   * works per instance or per thread.
+   * Solution 3) which introduces a controllable global small sized cache is a
+   * better solution to balance memory usage and performance.
+   */
+  private static final Cache<List<Object>, Method> GLOBAL_METHOD_CACHE =
 
 Review comment:
   Can we use `LoadingCache`?

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