Hi, The undocumented sun.reflect.noCaches option was put in place as a debugging aid when caching was added to core reflection[1], with the intent to remove it once overly inefficient uses of reflection was weeded out[2]. This appears to have been forgotten and should be cleaned up.
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8169880/webrev.01/ Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8169880 Thanks! /Claes [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-4419062 [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-4430358